Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira

When she was 18 years old and had become internationally renowned while also seeking personal and political independence from her controlling mother, the latter shot Hildegart to death in her sleep.

[2][3] Hildegart was conceived in Ferrol, Spain, by her mother Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira and an unnamed (at the time) biological father.

Aurora chose the father with eugenic intentions; she wanted to create the perfect child to further her feminist and socialist ideology.

[1] As Carballeira had been seeking a man who would never openly claim paternity or legal custody of their child, Hildegart's father was an intellectually brilliant Roman Catholic priest and military chaplain to the Spanish Royal Army, Alberto Pallás.

During her pregnancy, Aurora had set a clock to wake herself up every hour, allowing her to change sleep position so blood could flow to the fetus uniformly.

Hildegart maintained intellectual relationships and correspondence with prominent figures of her time, including physician Gregorio Marañón, socialist leader Antonio de Oro, and author H.G.

[9] Hildegart was one of the most active people in the Spanish movement for sex reformation, writing on subjects such as contraception, prostitution and eugenics.

She was connected to the European vanguard, corresponding with physician Havelock Ellis, whose work she translated and who nicknamed her "the Red Virgin", and Margaret Sanger.

[10][11] She had correspondence with many other European personalities, and accompanied the author H. G. Wells on a visit he made to Madrid, but declined his offer to relocate to London and become his secretary.

This offer by Wells, who was reportedly very concerned and wanted Hildegart away from the influence of her mother, furthered the persecution complex already felt by Aurora.

The following year, she constructed male and female rag dolls with prominent genitalia out of desire to demystify the sexual organs; these were confiscated and destroyed by the hospital orderlies.

In a 1948 letter to the mother superior of the nuns running the mental institution, Aurora argued that she had spent a long time in prison and deserved to be pardoned.