De Kate Field a Martha Gellhorn, buscando un espacio propio

Abstract

During the nineteenth century the press promoted the publication of travel accounts and essays on Spain in the United States and Europe. Towards the end of the century, these texts evolved from the romantic, exotic and dark image of the bandit to one more informed and realistic. The boldest women writers took advantage of the various improvements in the press to reach the general public, as Kate Field did with the account of her journey abroad, Ten Days in Spain. In the twentieth century, Martha Gellhorn dared to write journalistic chronicles about the Spanish Civil War from Madrid. Analysing their adventures and what these entail in the creation of a space and an identity of their own may, can offer a new perspective from which to consider American travel writing on Spain.