Carolina Marcial Dorado

Carolina Marcial Dorado (1889 – July 25, 1941) was a Spanish educator, writer, and lecturer based in the United States. She was head of the Spanish department at Barnard College from 1920 until her death in 1941.

Carolina Marcial Dorado
Carolina Marcial Dorado, from a 1919 publication.
Born	1889 Camuñas, Toledo, Spain
Died	July 25, 1941 New York, New York
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	educator

Early life

Carolina Marcial Dorado was born in Camuñas, Toledo, the daughter of José Marcial Palacios, a Protestant clergyman, and María de la Luz Marcial-Dorado; her parents were originally from Andalusia.^[1] Her older brother, José Marcial Dorado, was a journalist and briefly a member of the Spanish parliament; he was also secretary of the American Bible Society for the Caribbean, based in Cuba.^[2][3]

Carolina Marcial Dorado was raised by grandparents in Seville, and attended a Protestant girls' school run by American missionary Alice Gordon Gulick.^[4] In 1905 she traveled to the United States to represent the school on a mission fundraising tour. She completed a college course in Madrid in 1907. She earned a master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania.^[5]

Career

Marcial Dorado taught Spanish at Wellesley College from 1907 to 1911, and Spanish literature at the University of Puerto Rico from 1911 to 1917. In 1918, she was an associate professor at Bryn Mawr College, and in 1919 she taught a summer course on "Spain and Spanish Countries" at UCLA.^[6][7] In 1920 she became a professor and head of the Spanish department at Barnard College.^[8] She also established and taught at a summer study program in Barcelona and Madrid, before the Spanish Civil War.^[4][9][10]

She edited books for Ginn and Company. From 1925, she was also director of publications at International Telephone & Telegraph.^[11] She was also an associate editor of the journal Hispania.^[4] She corresponded and worked with Spanish educator Maria de Maeztu Whitney and writer Zenobia Camprubí, especially during the Spanish Civil War.^[4] Marcial Dorado was awarded the Grand Cross of Alfonso XII and the Silver Cross of Civil Merit.^[12]

 

An illustration from Marcial Dorado's first book, España pintoresca (1917)

Publications

Publications by Marcial Dorado^[13] included Espana Pintoresca: The Life and Customs of Spain In Story and Legend (1917),^[14] Primeras lecciones de español (1918),^[15] Primeras lecturas en español (1920),^[16] Trozos Modernos: Selections from Modern Spanish Writers (1922, co-edited with Medora Loomis Ray),^[17] and Segundas lecciones de español (1925).^[18] "It is a joy to find this sane book thoroughly Spanish without running too much to archaic fable or fairy-tale vocabulary," one reviewer commented on a textbook by Marcial Dorado. "Songs, games, riddles, proverbs spice it."^[19] She also wrote a play, Rosas de España (1908), performed at Wellesley, and published a collection of short plays titled Chispitas (1927), and another textbook, Pasitos (1935).^[20]

Personal life

Marcial Dorado died in New York in 1941, aged 51 years, from a heart attack.^[12] "Such a spirit does not die," wrote a colleague in tribute. "It is built into the personality of the college she served so long, and there it lives on always."^[21] In 1953 Barnard College established a Carolina Marcial Dorado Spanish Scholarship Fund, named in her memory.^[22]

References

1. Gamazo, Adelaida Sagarra (2017-11-15). Carolina Marcial-Dorado. En español por New York, 5th Avenue: EN Liberales, cultivadas y activas: redes culturales, lazos de amistad (in Spanish). Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.
2. Baer, James A. (2019-06-15). A Social History of Cuba's Protestants: God and the Nation. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 93–94. ISBN 9781498581080.
3. S. F. H. (October 29, 1931). "Women Of The New Spain". Women's Wear Daily. 43: 22 – via ProQuest.
4. Márquez-Macías, Rosario (July–December 2017). "In defense of hispanic culture. Carolina Marcial Dorado (1889-1941): A singular woman in the North American intellectual scene" (PDF). Jangwa Pana: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. 16: 217–231 – via OAJI.
5. College, Bryn Mawr (1920). Bryn Mawr College Calendar: Graduate Courses. The College. p. 13.
6. "Americanization". The California Alumni Fortnightly. 12: 124. May 3, 1919.
7. Angeles, University of California, Los (1918). UCLA Summer Sessions. The University. p. 62.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
8. University, Columbia (1923). Columbia University Bulletin. Columbia University Press. pp. xiii.
9. Doyle, Henry Grattan (April 15, 1920). "Modern Language Items". Journal of Education. 91 (16): 428–429. doi:10.1177/002205742009101604. S2CID 220806433.
10. "Summer Courses for Foreigners in Madrid". The Modern Language Journal. 4: 376–377. April 1920.
11. Dorado, Carolina Marcial (1926). Spain: pertinent facts briefly sketched. International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Bureau Pro-España.
12. "Miss Marcial-Dorado, Barnard Professor; Head of Spanish Department was Honored by King Alfonso". The New York Times. July 26, 1941. p. 15 – via ProQuest.
13. Author: Carolina Marcial Dorado, Open Library.
14. Dorado, Carolina Marcial (1917). España pintoresca: the life and customs of Spain in story and legend (in Spanish). Ginn. Carolina Marcial Dorado.
15. "Marcial Dorado, Carolina, 1889-". The Online Books Page. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
16. Dorado, Carolina Marcial (1920). Primeras lecturas en español (in Spanish). Ginn. Carolina Marcial Dorado.
17. Dorado, Carolina Marcial; Ray, Medora Loomis (1922). Trozos modernos: selections from modern Spanish writers (in Spanish). Ginn. Carolina Marcial Dorado.
18. Dorado, Carolina Marcial (1925). Segundas lecciones de español (in Spanish). Ginn.
19. Henry, Ruth (March 1919). "Review of Marcial, Primeras lecciones de español". Hispania. 2: 160–161. doi:10.2307/330952. hdl:2027/hvd.hn2bit. JSTOR 330952.
20. Dorado, Carolina Marcial (1935). Pasitos (in Spanish). Harper & Brothers.
21. Gildersleeve, Virginia C. (October 3, 1941). "Carolina Marcial-Dorado". Barnard Bulletin. p. 2. Retrieved June 25, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
22. "Scholarship Fund to Finance Spanish Student at Barnard". Barnard Bulletin. October 12, 1953. p. 4. Retrieved June 25, 2019 – via NewspaperArchive.com.