María Mercedes Vial Explained

María Mercedes Vial
Birth Name:	María Mercedes Vial Solar
Birth Place:	Santiago, Chile
Death Place:	Santiago, Chile
Other Names:	Serafia
Occupation:	Writer
Years Active:	1917–1942
Spouse:	Rafael Ugarte Ovalle^[1]

María Mercedes Vial Solar (1863–1942), also known as María Mercedes Vial de Ugarte or by her literary pseudonym Serafia, was a Chilean feminist writer and novelist.^{[2] [3]}

Her parents were Wenceslao Vial y Guznián and Luisa Solar y Marín.^[3]

For some authors, her work can be framed within so-called "aristocratic feminism", along with other writers such as Inés Echeverría Bello, Mariana Cox Méndez, Teresa Wilms Montt, María Luisa Fernández, and the sisters Ximena and Carmen Morla Lynch.^[4]

Works

• Cosas que fueron (novel, Santiago: Zig-Zag, 1917)
• Amor que no muere (novel, Santiago: Editorial Nascimiento, 1929)
• Algo pasado de moda : conferencias dadas en el Club de Señoras (Santiago: Impr. Cervantes, 1926)

Notes and References

1. Book: de la Cuadra Gormaz, Guillermo . Familias chilenas: (origen y desarrollo de las familias chilenas) . Chilean Families: (Origin and Growth of Chilean Families) . Editorial Zamorano y Caperán . Santiago . 552 . Spanish . 1982 . 29 September 2017 . Google Books.
2. Book: Re-Leer Hoy a Gabriela Mistral: Mujer, Historia y Sociedad . Re-reading Gabriela Mistral Today: Woman, History and Society . Lillo . Gastón . Renart . Juan Guillermo . . 9780889270312 . 89 . Spanish . 1997 . 29 September 2017 . Google Books.
3. Book: Uribe Muñoz, Bernardo . Mujeres de América . Women of America . Imp. Oficial . 185 . Spanish . 1934 . 29 September 2017 . Google Books.
4. El feminismo aristocrático: la violencia simbólica y ruptura soterrada a comienzos del siglo XX . Aristocratic Feminism: Symbolic Violence and Buried Rupture at the Beginning of the 20th Century . Revista de historia social y de las mentalidades . Poblete Alday . Patricia . Rivera Aravena . Carla . 1 . 7 . . 57–79 . Spanish . Spring 2003 . 28 September 2017.