José María de Pereda

José María de Pereda was born in 1833 in Polanco, in Cantabria. After his studies in Santander, he left in 1852 for Madrid to prepare for entry into the artillery, a plan he abandoned in order to return to his province. He began in the local press and became known in 1864 through a collection of sketches of the customs of his region. A Carlist, he was elected deputy for Cabuérniga in 1871. A friend of Galdós despite their opposing ideas, he answered two of his novels with a novel. A member of the Real Academia Española, he died in 1906.

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• NovelSotilezaJosé María de Pereda · 1885not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain