[2] Under the masculine pseudonym "Rafael Luna", she published the novels Novelas que parecen dramas (1877), Las tres leyes (1878) Ocaso y aurora (1878) y María Magdalena: estudio social (1880), as well as a large number of critical works.
[6] She collaborated in the Madrid women's magazine La Ilustración de la Mujer,[7] where three poems, a literary story, a study on religious music, and a series of articles on the feminine situation are preserved, collected under the column of "Las mujeres pintadas por sí mismas" (The women painted by themselves), these signed with her real name.
Later, in 1884, the physician Eduardo López Bago published La prostituta, which was highly criticized and the object of some controversy.
[2] She died in her home in Madrid at 21 Calle de la Palma of an aneurysm, according to the official report,[2] on 15 August 1880.
[4][5] However, her unexpected death caused some rumors about a possible suicide as a result of the public pressure she received for her denunciation of prostitution.