[2] An active Catholic until her 30s, she began her theosophical and spiritualist transformation at the beginning of the twentieth century, although she never lost the link with the Christian figures that were so central to her early years.
[2] After a long trip to Europe and the Holy Land, in 1905, across the birth of her fourth and only daughter, and the publication of her first book, she started literary gatherings in her house that were attended by the intellectual elite of the time, with people like Augusto D'Halmar, Luis Orrego Luco, Joaquín Edwards Bello, Mariano Latorre, Fernando Santiván, among others.
[1] In 1910 she published four books that made a big impact due to their critical content: Perfiles Vagos, Tierra Virgen, Emociones Teatrales y Hojas Caídas.
Besides the works mentioned and her writings in "El Mercurio", "Familia", "Zig-Zag", and "Sucesos", she published Emociones Teatrales, a collection of theatrical criticisms.
[10] Por él had a testimonial function and served as another proof in the ratification of the conviction of Barceló, a process that came to occupy the space of the press, in the pages of El diario ilustrado and the magazine Sucesos.
Inés Echeverría helped the fulfillment of the sentence and the subsequent execution of Roberto Barceló, who "became the first and only aristocrat to whom the maximum penalty has been applied in Chile".
[6][7] These women, in turn, came into close contact with the avant-garde youth, young university students with artistic, political and social interests, who together supported Alessandri's candidacy for 1920.
[6] nés and her fellow aristocratic associates lived lifestyles that defied traditional molds, were considered eccentric and branded sometimes immoral by the "well-thinking" society and the "decent neighborhood" of the time.
[6] The participation in this populist candidacy by Inés Echeverría and all the social and intellectual effervescence of the moment is extensively related in her work Memorias, published posthumously by her granddaughter in 2005.