[1] She enjoyed success with her 1936 novel, Cristina Guzmán, which was subsequently adapted for the stage, television and cinema.

Her father was Mexican writer and diplomat Francisco A. de Icaza.

[4] One 1925, her father died, and she began working at El Sol newspaper.

In 1930, she married Lt. Col. Pedro Montojo Sureda, and in 1932 they had her only daughter Paloma Montojo y de Icaza, mother of Íñigo Méndez de Vigo.

On 14 December 1951, she obtained her noble title of 8th Baroness of Claret, by her collaboration with charity.