María de la O Lejárraga and Gregorio Martínez Sierra

María de la O Lejárraga was born in 1874 in San Millán de la Cogolla, in La Rioja, and grew up in Madrid. A schoolteacher from 1897 to 1907, she married Gregorio Martínez Sierra in 1900, and a large part of her work appeared under his name: plays, libretti for Manuel de Falla, essays; he ran the company and the theatre that staged them. A feminist, elected Socialist deputy for Granada in 1933, she left Spain during the Civil War and lived in France, the United States, Mexico, then Buenos Aires, where she died in 1974.

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• TheatreThe Cradle SongCanción de cunaMaría de la O Lejárraga and Gregorio Martínez Sierra · 1911Literature