C sa curiosity, we bring to our page an excerpt from Sun and Shadow in Spain (Boston, 1908), American writer Maud Howe Elliott (1854-1948), daughter of abolitionist Julia Ward Howe The latter remembered as the poet who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic ( The Battle Hymn of the Republic ).
The passage brings us to the Madrid studio of the painter José Villegas Cordero Seville, where he has entered into a dance played by Pastora Imperio they accompany their mother Rosario the Marjoram and his brother Victor, whom she calls curiously Dionisio . While some data are consistent with reality-verbigracia, Pastor-danced at the Kursaal, other notes seem drawn from the imagination.
Villegas says: "... When I came to Madrid for the first time - to copy Velázquez - was then only sixteen years - the mother of Empire was the first dancer from Spain (...) Forgot the dance he did at Palace for Queen Elizabeth? "
Needless to say, the claim that Howe put into the mouth of the painter does not fit: When Villegas arrived in Madrid, 23 years according to his biographers (1867), Mejorana was a child. However, not be ruled out that the episode of Dancing with Isabel II of Spain may have some truth in another context.
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Here are little known in which, through novels, witness the dance of a Monk Rosario middle-aged.
Sun and Shadow in Spain , Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1908.
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