Filomena Dato

She participated in the Rexurdimento, the literary movement that revitalized the Galician language as a means of expression, following in the likes of Valentín Lamas Carvajal.

In fact, these two poets are the best representatives of the feminist lyric of 19th century Spain, in a historical context in which machismo was the dominant ideology, not only among people without cultural training, but also among intellectuals.

These still asked questions such as if women had a soul, if they had conscience and remorse, or if they were the bearers of sin by inheritance from Eve, among others, being very frequent in social and philosophical debates.

The feminist claim and defense of the aforementioned woman is very present in ''Follatos'' (1891), her only book in the Galician language; it was dedicated to Infanta Sabela Francisca de Borbón.

The book is a compilation of forty-five poems as a complaint against gender stereotypes, in addition to including a series of writings on religiosity and intimacy, very much in the line of typical 19th century Romanticism.