Isabel Oyarzbal Smith (12 June 1878 in Mlaga, Andalusia, Spain 28 May
1974 Mexico City) was a Spanish-born journalist, writer, actress and
diplomat, also known as Isabel de Palencia.She had a Scottish mother,
Anne Guthrie.[1] Oyarzbal's first position was of a Spanish language
instructor in Sussex, England. After the death of her father, she met
Ceferino Palencia, the son of actress Mara Tubau. Oyarzbal told
Palencia of her desire of becoming an actress and Palencia cast her
for the play Pepita Tud. She kept writing and with her friend Raimunda
Avecilla and her sister Ana Oyarzbal she edited the magazine La Dama y
la Vida Ilustrada. She was also a reporter for the Laffan News Bureau
(a minor rival to Associated Press) and the newspaper The Standard. In
1909 she married Palencia and then collaborated for the Spanish
magazines Blanco y Negro, El Heraldo, Nuevo Mundo and La Esfera.In
1926, she wrote a Spanish folklore book titled El traje regional de
Espaa (The Regional Costumes of Spain). In 1930 she became the only
female in the Slavery Permanent Commission of the League of
Nations.During the Spanish Civil War she was a spokesperson for the
Republic and called for the repeal of the international
Non-Intervention Agreement at a UK Labour Party meeting in October
1936 in Edinburgh, Scotland where she met and influenced Jennie Lee, a
Labour activist who later visited Spain to report on the war [1]. She
was appointed Ambassador to Sweden for the Republic towards the end of
1936.[2]
1974 Mexico City) was a Spanish-born journalist, writer, actress and
diplomat, also known as Isabel de Palencia.She had a Scottish mother,
Anne Guthrie.[1] Oyarzbal's first position was of a Spanish language
instructor in Sussex, England. After the death of her father, she met
Ceferino Palencia, the son of actress Mara Tubau. Oyarzbal told
Palencia of her desire of becoming an actress and Palencia cast her
for the play Pepita Tud. She kept writing and with her friend Raimunda
Avecilla and her sister Ana Oyarzbal she edited the magazine La Dama y
la Vida Ilustrada. She was also a reporter for the Laffan News Bureau
(a minor rival to Associated Press) and the newspaper The Standard. In
1909 she married Palencia and then collaborated for the Spanish
magazines Blanco y Negro, El Heraldo, Nuevo Mundo and La Esfera.In
1926, she wrote a Spanish folklore book titled El traje regional de
Espaa (The Regional Costumes of Spain). In 1930 she became the only
female in the Slavery Permanent Commission of the League of
Nations.During the Spanish Civil War she was a spokesperson for the
Republic and called for the repeal of the international
Non-Intervention Agreement at a UK Labour Party meeting in October
1936 in Edinburgh, Scotland where she met and influenced Jennie Lee, a
Labour activist who later visited Spain to report on the war [1]. She
was appointed Ambassador to Sweden for the Republic towards the end of
1936.[2]
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