Emilia Pardo Bazán House Museum in A Coruña

The entrance hall

Tapestries such as the largest one, woven in Brussels in the late 16th century, a Nursing Madonna carved between the 14th and 15th centuries and Isabelline furniture sit alongside the family portraits, which keep the writer's own portrait company.

The drawing room

Here Doña Emilia received leading figures from the politics and culture of her time, and here the Revista de Galicia, which she edited, and the Sociedad del Folk-lore Gallego, which she chaired, held their meetings. There were also grand parties with figures such as the poet Zorrilla and Emilio Castelar, president of the First Republic.

The literary output room

Five areas look back over her work, with books from her personal library, her views on feminism, her newspaper articles and Marineda, the author's literary A Coruña.

The study

It uses original objects to recreate the place where she wrote, with family portraits such as those of her mother painted by Sorolla and Vaamonde, and documents such as her “Apuntes autobiográficos”, the prologue to the first edition of The House of Ulloa.

The courtyard

A space for reading and relaxing that evokes the Galician landscape, so present in her work and in the gardens of the Torres de Meirás, her summer residence in Sada.