Margarita de Mayo Izarra (20 July 1889 – 1969) was a Spanish writer, teacher, and journalist.
[1][2] Margarita de Mayo, after obtaining the title of teacher of Primary Higher Education, taught at a graduate school for girls in Valdepeñas from 1914 to 1918.
[1] In 1921, she began to study, thanks to scholarships granted to her, in Great Britain, where she obtained a place at King's College for Women in London.
[1][3] In 1924, Mayo was named a pensioner of the JAE to attend Vassar College in New York, where she ended up being a permanent member of the Spanish Department until she retired in 1956.
Her beginnings as a journalist took place in the 1930s, when she began to publish in the provincial and limited circulation press, such as El Bien Público, a monarchic newspaper of Mahón, and La Correspondencia Militar, Madrid Científico, and Nuevo Mundo of Madrid.