Isabel Oyarzábal Smith

After the death of her father, she met Ceferino Palencia, the son of actress María Tubau.

In 1909 she married Palencia and then collaborated for the Spanish magazines Blanco y Negro, El Heraldo, Nuevo Mundo and La Esfera.

During the Spanish Civil War she was a spokesperson for the Republic and called for the repeal of the international Non-Intervention Agreement at a UK Labour Party meeting in October 1936 in Edinburgh, Scotland where she met and influenced Jennie Lee, a Labour activist who later visited Spain to report on the war.

In her memoir Smouldering Freedom, she repeatedly states a desire to return to Spain and a wish to embrace a post fascist and Francoist vision for the country.

Spain will again be free and, in the eyes of all sincere liberals, those who do not side openly with her now will not be in a very enviable position from a moral point of view when victory is assured.