María Lejárraga novelist and playwright a feminist woman as intelligent and brilliant as she is unknown is the author of all the works with which her husband Gregorio Martínez Sierra achieved success in the theaters while she waited at home in the shade without name recognition. A "passionate painful and brave" story of María de la O Lejárraga San Millán de la Cogolla - Buenos Aires that Vanessa Montfort now discovers in the novel "The Woman Without a Name" edited by Plaza and Janes. Lejárraga was a brilliant woman and pioneer of Spanish literature who lived and was part of its Silver Age "brave generous extraordinary feminist incapable of harming anyone" Vanessa Monfort told Efe in an interview.
When her family moved to Madrid Lejárraga trained in Teaching and Pedagogy and "from a very young age she became interested in literature and theater" adds Montfort. In she married Gregorio Martínez Sierra and that playwright hid behind her husband's UAE Phone Number name. "She was a teacher and in those years it was frowned upon for a children's teacher to express literary interest" adds the novelist who assures that together they formed one of the "most fruitful artistic couples of the time." In the first half of the novel Montfort shows a woman who lives in a literary theatrical and masculine environment where she interacts with men who were her mentors friends or collaborators such as Juan Ramón Jiménez Falla Turina Lorca or Galdós.
Together with Manuel de Falla this woman ahead of her time wrote "The Three-cornered Hat" and "El amor brujo." She also collaborated with other authors of the time such as Eduardo Marquina the Álvarez Quintero brothers Carlos Arniches or the musician Joaquín Turina. Gregorio Martínez Sierra was in charge of directing the works "he got the applause at the premieres" while María Lejárraga "was busy writing in the shadows" says the author who asserts that "he did not write a line." . After twenty years of marriage Martínez Sierra falls in love with another woman the famous actress Catalina Bárcena with whom he had a daughter. The marriage broke up but María Lejarrága "a tireless worker" continued writing and he continued to sign.
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