Concepción Arenal Ponte ( Ferrol , 31 January 1820 – Vigo , 4 February 1893) was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol , Galicia , she excelled in literature and was the first woman to attend university in Spain. She was also a pioneer and founder of the feminist movement in Spain.
24-433: Arenal may refer to: People with the surname [ edit ] Concepción Arenal (1820–1893), Spanish feminist writer and activist Electa Arenal (1935–1969), Mexican muralist Luis Arenal Bastar (c. 1900–1985), Mexican painter, engraver and sculptor Elena Huerta de Arenal (1908–1997), Mexican muralist Places [ edit ] Arenal, Arizona , one of
48-511: A daughter that died shortly after birth, and two sons, Fernando (b. 1850) and Ramón (b. 1852). In her later years, her health being a permanent cause of concern, Concepción Arenal lived with her son Fernando and Fernando's second wife, Ernestina Winter. Concepción Arenal and her husband collaborated closely on the liberal newspaper Iberia until Fernando's death in 1859. Penniless she was forced to sell all her possessions in Armaño and moved into
72-416: A good education system for women, what aptitudes women had for teaching and other jobs and women's physical education. The vice-president of this round table was Emilia Pardo Bazán . Arenal's position was supporting women's education without limitation. Arenal's achievements were extraordinary in a largely traditional Spain, focusing her work on those marginalised in society. She wrote not only extensively on
96-414: A paper about “La educación de la mujer” [Women's education] in the fifth section of the congress dedicated to Concepto y límites de la educación de la mujer, y de la aptitud profesional de ésta [The concept and limits of women's education and her professional aptitude]. The section dealt with the debate of the similarities and difference between women and men's education, what tools were necessary to organize
120-627: A recital with Giacomo Meyerbeer ). On these tours he used to play some of his own compositions like the Fantasía Característica Española or Adiós a la Alhambra . He got the post of professor in the Madrid Conservatory in 1857 (a job that he combined with the post at the Capilla Real de Madrid exerted also since 1857) and became director of that conservatory in 1894. On Bériot 's death in 1870 he
144-816: A reinforced concrete bridge in Bilbao, Spain Arenal District, Paita , Peru Arenal River , Costa Rica, a tributary of the San Carlos River Arenal Volcano , a volcano in Costa Rica Lake Arenal , a lake in Costa Rica Other uses [ edit ] UD Arenal , a football team based in S'Arenal de Llucmajor, Balearic Islands See also [ edit ] El Arenal (disambiguation) Arenal District (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
168-538: Is an almost incredible phenomenon seeing so much disposition at so tender an age". He then moved to Madrid to pursue his studies, and received a pension and a violin after playing a concert for the Infanta Isabel de Borbón . During his early formative years numerous press references about him were written in several musical magazines and he was named emeritus partner of several lyceums. After his father's death in mid 1845, his tutor Basilio Montoya got Monasterio
192-499: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Concepci%C3%B3n Arenal Her father, Ángel del Arenal y de la Cuesta, was a liberal military officer who was often imprisoned for his ideology and opposition to the regime of Ferdinand VII . He fell ill in prison and died in 1829, when Concepción was aged 9. She moved to Armaño ( Cantabria ) with her mother, María Concepción Ponte Mandiá Tenreiro, and then to Madrid in 1834, to attend
216-661: The Capilla Real de Madrid . Then he continued his career as a virtuoso being invited to festivals in England and Scotland and playing with the most influential musicians at that time, like Marie Pleyel or Heinrich Ernst . It was especially admired in London, where he was compared with the most important violinists of his generation. He also played in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany (where he played his own violin concerto in
240-680: The 19th century Pima Villages Arenal, Yoro , a municipality in Honduras Arenal del Sur , a town in Bolívar Department, Colombia Arenal d'en Castell , a small town in Es Mercadal, Minorca Nuevo Arenal , a town and district in Tilarán Canton, Costa Rica Arenal Airport , an airport serving La Fortuna, Costa Rica Arenal Botanical Gardens , on the shore of Lake Arenal, Costa Rica Arenal Bridge ,
264-795: The Madrid-based magazine The Voice of Charity . In 1872 she founded the Construction Beneficiary, a society dedicated to building cheap houses for workers. She also worked with the Red Cross helping the injured of the Carlist War , working in a hospital in Miranda de Ebro , later being named Secretary General of the Red Cross between 1871 and 1872. In 1877 she published Penitentiary Studies . Concepción Arenal died
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#1732765561342288-444: The audience with his violin abilities at such a young age. According to the review of that concert in the magazine La Iberia Musical y Literaria , "He caused an inexplicable admiration with the prodigies that he made playing the violin: this little angel, smaller than the instrument he had in hand, was crowned and named partner of merit among a thousand demonstrations of general approval. This innocent child has surprised us, because it
312-517: The house of violinist and composer Jesús de Monasterio in Potes , Cantabria, where in 1859 she founded the feminist group Conference of Saint Vincent de Paul in order to help the poor. Two years later the Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics awarded her a prize for her work La beneficencia, la filantropía y la caridad [ Beneficence, philanthropy and charity ]. It was the first time the Academy gave
336-881: The morning of 4 February 1893 of chronic bronchitis in Vigo , where she was buried a day later. Her epitaph is her personal motto: "To virtue, to life, to science." Concepción Arenal is one of the pioneers of feminism in Spain . Her first work about women's rights was La Mujer del Porvenir [The woman of the future] (1869) where she critics the theories defending the inferiority of women based on biological reasons. She defended women's access to any level of education, although not to any job because she considered that women were not skilled to be an authority figure. She did not support women's political involvement because they were at risk of suffering retaliation and neglecting their family. However, later she also wrote: “a serious mistake, and one of
360-439: The most harmful, to impress upon women that her sole mission is to be wife and mother; it amounts to tell her that she can be nothing by herself and to annihilate her moral and intellectual self” She had a close relationship with krausism intellectuals. She was admirer of Fernando de Castro 's work about women's education and also she was a member of Ateneo Artístico y Literairo de Señoras directors’ board keeping up to date with
384-693: The opportunity to study with Bériot in the Royal Conservatory of Brussels , where he studied harmony with Lemmens , counterpoint with Fétis and completed his literary education with his friend and protector Gevaert . In 1852, he got the Prix extraordinaire at the Conservatoire, which had been delayed because of Monasterio's young age. After successfully finishing his studies in Brussels he returned to Madrid to be named honorary violinist of
408-469: The prize to a woman. In later years she published poetry books and essays such as Cartas á los Delincuentes [ Letters to delinquents ] (1865), “Ode against slavery” (1866), El reo, el pueblo y el verdugo, o, La ejecución pública de la pena de muerte [ Convicts, the people and the executioner, or, The execution of the death sentence ] (1867). In 1868 she was named Inspector of Women's Correctional Houses and in 1871 began fourteen years of collaboration with
432-740: The progress made by Asociación para la Enseñanza de la Mujer (Association for Teaching Women). Years later, she collaborated regularly with Boletín de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza [Journal of the Institution of Free Teaching] submitting articles about criminal and feminist topics. In 1882 Arenal participated-although she was not present- in the Congreso Pedagógico Hispano-Portugués-Americano [Congress of Hispanic-Portugues-American Pedagogy] hold in Madrid and led by Rafael Mª de Labra . She presented
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480-657: The school of the Count of Tepa. Against her mother's wishes in 1841 she went to Law School at the Central University (now the Complutense University of Madrid ), becoming the first woman in Spain to attend University, where she was forced to wear masculine attire. She also attended political and literary debates, unheard of at the time for a woman. She graduated and in 1848 she married lawyer and writer Fernando García Carrasco. They had three children:
504-503: The state of prisons for both men and women, but also on the role of women in society in works such as La Mujer del Porvenir [ The Woman of the Future ] (1869), The education of women , The current state of women in Spain , The work of women , La mujer de su casa [ The woman of the house ] (1883) and Domestic service . It is this work which made her known as the founder of the feminist movement in Spain. A monument to Concepción Arenal
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#1732765561342528-468: Was a Spanish violinist, composer, conductor and teacher. He was one of the main promoters of instrumental music in Madrid during the nineteenth century. De Monasterio was born in Potes , Cantabria . He began studying the violin with his father, an amateur violinist, and he continued learning in Valladolid with José Ortega Zapata. His first public performance was in 1843, during which he astonished
552-593: Was erected in 1934 in Madrid, and the Library of Law, Political Sciences and Labour Relations of the University of Santiago de Compostela bears her name. Ideologically, Arenal was a reformist deeply rooted in Christian doctrine. On 31 January 2015, Google Doodle celebrated Concepción Arenal’s 195th Birthday. Jes%C3%BAs de Monasterio Jesús de Monasterio y Agüeros (21 March 1836 – 28 September 1903)
576-600: Was offered by Fétis to be professor of the Brussels Conservatoire, but he preferred to stay in Spain. Monasterio's concern about the state of Spanish chamber music panorama was reflected in the creation along with the pianist Juan María Guelbenzu of the Sociedad de Cuartetos de Madrid in 1863, which put on regular concerts of chamber music for a number of years, specifically until 5 January 1894. In 1864, he began conducting, becoming in 1869 conductor of
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