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Comment by Ian C Dengler on August 3, 2013 at 3:16pm

The stamp is about...uh..just about anything with a ring around it, from atoms to the circles of Hell, or Heaven. Back in the day, children of the wealthy (hence, celebrities) were loaned out:

obscure poets: rosalía de castro

by Kristen McHenry

“Men think a talented woman a veritable calamity, and would rather marry the ass of Balaam than a bright girl.” *

Such is the complaint of Rosalía de Castro, early feminist, poet and novelist from the Galician region of Spain. Though her literary talents were disregarded for most of her life, several decades after her death, de Castro’s poetry became a major influence on Fredrico García Lorca and other Spanish Romantic poets. Today, she is revered in Galicia and is considered a champion of the poor and downtrodden.

De Castro was born 1837 into an well-to-do family. At that time in Spain it was traditional for girls of her social standing to be given over as children to rural peasant families, then reclaimed when they came of age. Through this arrangement, de Castro grew up in the impoverished Galicia countryside and developed a deep love of Galician lore and poetry, as well a life-long empathy for the poor and powerless.

When she was 14, she was reclaimed by her mother and enrolled in a girl’s school in Santiago where she studied music, art and writing. But the Galician countryside was in her blood and she was often homesick.  Scholars believe much of the pain and melancholy that permeates her poetry is a result of both the early separation from her mother and her longing to return to Galicia.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 3, 2013 at 2:52pm

That's a very good one!

Comment by Ian C Dengler on August 3, 2013 at 6:04am

Tom L. Beauchamp: philosopher of Alien Rights and Affirmative Action