Carmen Baroja

When it closed down after six issues, her father went back to his profession as a mining engineer and took the family to Burjassot near València, Cestona in Guipúzcoa, and San Sebastián.

[2] In 1926, Baroja rejoined active public life by participating in the creation the Lyceum Woman's Club, a feminist cultural association seeking to defend women's social and moral equality, and have full integration in education and work.

Made up of artists, doctors, lawyers, politicians, scientists and writers, its members included Clara Campoamor, Zenobia Camprubí, Elena Fortún, Victoria Kent, María Teresa León, Maria de Maeztu Whitney, Concha Méndez, Margarita Nelken, and Isabel Oyarzábal Smith.

[3] Even though its lectures and talks were open only by invitation, the Lyceum Club was perceived to represent a threat to decent bourgeois society, challenging as it did the gendered boundaries of cultural activity.

The reaction of Madrid's literary elite was varied; while writers such as Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti and Miguel de Unamuno presented lectures at the Lyceum.

[6] Baroja was living with her children in Vera de Bidasoa while her husband stayed on in Madrid working at his printing press, "spending a long, cruel summer of three years observing intransigence, stupidity and cruelty, irrespective of ideologies.

[9] In 1947, Baroja bought a house on a 57-acre (23 ha) olive grove in Tendilla known as El Parador del Tío Ruperto in the province of Guadalajara.