Their son and the father of Concepción, Ricardo Castella y González-Aurioles (died 1925),[4] was educated as a lawyer; in the 1890s and 1900s he practiced as attorney[5] and judge in the Salvador district.

[9] At the turn of the centuries he was councilor in the Granada ayuntamiento[10] and served as teniente de alcalde, the deputy mayor;[11] in the early 1910s he was president of Junta Municipal del Censo.

[14] Educated in medicine, he earned his status due to contribution to fighting cholera outbursts, management of the municipal sanitary infrastructure, as academic and as rector of the University of Granada from 1872 to 1875; he reportedly rejected the marqués title, offered to him by the king.

[15] Ricardo and Blanca lived in Granada, in the late 1900s they moved to the large, four-storey residence in the centre of the city, designed for the family by a prestigious architect.

The latter told a story of a young officer, who sacrificed his love for a woman to take care of own mother and younger siblings, suddenly in financial dire straits.

She penned three short novels (80–90 pages each)[32] with plot in wartime setting: Guerra en el frente, paz en las almas (1937)[33] was related to the siege of alcázar in Toledo,[34] Hágase tu voluntad (1938)[35] dwelled upon heroism of Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza defenders,[36] El Alférez provisional (1939) presented deeds of a young man turned officer.

Other novels were more tilted towards entertainment, though they were also supposed to “deliver a sense of normality” in the early Francoist era;[55] a historian puts them in the “conservadurismo casero” rubric, which by means of “literatura inofensiva” exercised “ideological control” over the readers.

[56] None of the sources consulted provides information on political preferences of Castella's ancestors, except that her father was of conservative ideas and as representative of Partido Conservador he competed for seat in the Granada ayuntamiento.

[59] The oldest one, Juan, during the family's Tenerife spell of the mid-1930s was already active in right-wing organisations,[60] yet there is no evidence of Carlist or general political engagements of his mother.

One author claims that along Antonio Pérez de Olaguer and Ignacio Romero Raizábal she was nominated one of "tres cronistas oficiales tradicionalistas",[62] yet there is no information available as to who and in what circumstances made the appointment; neither any Carlist war chronicle written by her is known.

[68] The Francoist press of the late 1930s and the early 1940s used to acknowledge Castella's novels favorably on literary or culture pages, though without particular fanfare; many notes were reproduced literally across various newspapers.

Her prose was praised for “vividness of colors”, “deeply felt emotion”, “linguistic elegance”, plot “truly attractive”,[76] “well-founded”, “admirably narrated”, “exquisite femininity”, “pleasant and graceful lecture”, “admirably developed action”,[77] “attractive plot”, “charm of Granada girls”, “extremely cultured language”, “exceptionally rich vocabulary”,[78] “passionate subject”, “original subject”,[79] “narrative of high literary and emotional interest”[80] and “delicate and heartfelt book”.

[95] Few works which pay slightly more attention present her as one of many authors who used to write banal, second-rate prose deprived of major if any artistic value; they reportedly combined action and romance and are usually labeled “novela rosa”, sort of “kitchen literature” for intellectually immature audience.

[98] If noted without stigmatizing as a reactionary Franquist propagandist, Castella is mentioned as related to literature featuring feminine personalities,[99] old Granada customs,[100] forgotten vocabulary,[101] Andalusian Gypsies,[102] or Carlist narrative.