Dolors Monserdà

Dolors Monserdà i Vidal (née, Dolors Moncerdà i Vidal; also known as, Dolors Monserdà de Macià; Barcelona, 1845 - 1919) was a Catalan writer, poet, storyteller, playwright, essayist, and columnist. She was the sister of the painter Enric Monserdà i Vidal (1850-1926), and her daughter was married to the modernist architect, Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

Illustration of Dolors Monserdà (1914) by Catalan artist Lluïsa Vidal.

Tomb of Dolors Monserdà at Montjuïc Cemetery, Barcelona

She wrote in Spanish through 1875, and from then on, in the Catalan language. She was a regular participant in the Floral Games, where she was awarded prizes in 1878, 1882 and 1891. In 1909, she was the first woman to chair a poetry contest. A journalist as well, she wrote for the periodical, La Renaixença, and the magazine, Feminal.

Selected works

Poetry

• Poesies Catalanes, 1888
• Poesies, 1911
• Poetry from the Floral Games^[1]

• Qui ets?, (1916, 1917)
• He fet bé! (Propòsits d'enamorats), (1916, 1917)
• Adéu a la poesia, (1916, 1919)
• Flors de Natzareth, (1916, 1917, 1919)
• Rondalles i Cançons, (1916, 1919, 1920, 1924)
• El verb de la Patria, (1917)
• La nostra Universitat, (1917, 1919)
• A la poesia, (1917, 1920)
• Del meu dietari d'Anyorançes, (1919)

Novels

• La Montserrat, 1893
• La família Asparó, 1900
• La fabricanta, 1904
• La Quitèria, 1906
• Del món, 1908
• Maria-Glòria, 1917
• Buscant una ànima, 1919

Theatre

• Sembrad y cogeréis, 1874
• Teresa o un jorn de prova, 1876
• Amor mana, 1913

Literary critic

• Estudi feminista, 1909
• Biografía de Na Josepa Massanés i Dalmau, 1915
• Tasques socials, 1916