[1][2] Blanca de los Ríos Nostench was an outstanding writer and literary critic, although she remains an obscure figure despite her intense and fruitful efforts.

Her birth into a cultured family brought her a broad education, as Consuelo Flecha points out in her 2000 biography of the author: "Surrounded by a family environment of writers, politicians, artists, and doctors, her education benefited from the wealth of stimuli and possibilities that this cultural context provided her with: her father, Demetrio de los Ríos [es], architect; her maternal grandfather, doctor; her uncles, writers like José Amador de los Ríos; and politicians, were a reference which she knew how to intelligently call on, even though she knew that, as a woman, not all roads were equally easy for her.

[1] Perhaps because of this awareness of the difficulties of being a woman, she hid her identity in her first works for the press, which were published under the name Carolina del Boss, an anagram of her own, although she quickly abandoned this pseudonym to sign as Blanca de los Ríos.

One of her principal works is Del siglo de Oro, published in 1910, for which Menéndez Pelayo himself wrote the prologue, in which he said of her: "The illustrious lady author of this book does not need anyone to present her to the reader with informal commendations.

Her Del siglo de Oro also includes an extensive bibliography, in which news is given of the books that were being translated into French, Italian, German, and Danish to be disseminated in those countries.

For this facet she has been highly praised,[1] with descriptions such as, "As a lecturer Blanca de los Ríos is also an eminent figure by the greatness of the issues she addresses, by the elevation and originality of thought, by the richness of her inexhaustible lexicon, for the elegance of her syntax, both classical and modern, for the nobility and ornamentation of her style, and for her fervent and persuasive elocution.