La leyenda negra contra España durante el Romanticismo inglés: las colecciones biográficas de Mary Hays
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En este trabajo se analizan las referencias
a España en dos colecciones biográficas
de la escritora inglesa Mary Hays: Female
Biography (1803) y Memoirs of Queens
(1821), pues en ellas aparecen varios hechos
históricos en los que se ha fundamentado
la llamada Leyenda Negra, como la
Inquisición, las persecuciones de protestantes
o la sospechosa muerte del infante
Don Carlos. Lo cierto es que las mujeres
españolas en estos textos son pocas; sin
embargo, en las diversas biografías también
aparecen otros personajes históricos, como
Carlos V y Felipe II, y puesto que estos dos
monarcas gobernaban un gran imperio, a
ellos iba dirigida la mayor parte de la propaganda
antiespañola de su tiempo y también
mucha de la posterior. No obstante,
dada la época en la que se publicaron las
colecciones de Hays, ciertas pinceladas románticas
son asimismo observables
This article will analyse the references involving Spain in two biographical collections by the English writer Mary Hays: Female Biography (1803) and Memoirs of Queens (1821), given that in these two texts there appear various historical events which are the main focus of the so called Black Legend, such as the Inquisition, the persecutions of Protestants and the suspicious death of the Infante Don Carlos. Indeed the Spanish women in these collections are scarce; however, in some of the biographies other Spanish historical figures also emerge, such as Charles V and Philip II, and since these two monarchs ruled a great empire, the greatest part of the anti- Spanish propaganda of their time and most of the subsequent one was addressed to them. Nevertheless, given the period of their publication, certain Romantic traces are also observable in Hays’s collections
This article will analyse the references involving Spain in two biographical collections by the English writer Mary Hays: Female Biography (1803) and Memoirs of Queens (1821), given that in these two texts there appear various historical events which are the main focus of the so called Black Legend, such as the Inquisition, the persecutions of Protestants and the suspicious death of the Infante Don Carlos. Indeed the Spanish women in these collections are scarce; however, in some of the biographies other Spanish historical figures also emerge, such as Charles V and Philip II, and since these two monarchs ruled a great empire, the greatest part of the anti- Spanish propaganda of their time and most of the subsequent one was addressed to them. Nevertheless, given the period of their publication, certain Romantic traces are also observable in Hays’s collections







