Fernando Acebal

The literary activity of Emilia Pardo Bazán causes the scandal of her husband and conservative circles. Supported by his family, decides to end her marriage to become a professional writer. Doña Emilia is set in Madrid, where he developed an activity tirelessly to get the place in the institutions of culture that deserves for his talent and ability, facing all kinds of slights and exclusions because of their gender. The Countess will become one of the key figures of female emancipation in Spain in the late nineteenth century, leaving a work as extensive as rich and varied.

Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.