Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal Ponte was an important spanish realist writer linked to the pioneer feminist movement. She was able to attend Law School at the Central University of Madrid dressing as a man in 1841. In 1848 she married Fernando García Carrasco, also a lawyer and a writer, who died in 1857. She became the first woman to receive an award from the Academy of Poilitics and Morals. In 1863 she started visiting women's prisons. The main topics of her writings were prisons, women's education and catholicism.