The personality of Carmen de Burgos continues to be less well known than it deserves due to her pioneering role in the history of Spanish women's journalism. When in 1909 she got off the ship in Melilla to cover the war in Morocco, this Almeria native, who had left behind an unhappy marriage in her hometown in search of a new life in Madrid, already had a long career.
He signed his chronicles with the pseudonym of Colombine, because his boss did not dare to publish a woman's signature in block letters at the bottom of an article, although many soon knew who was hiding behind it. Author of sixteen novels, the title of one of the latest, I want to live my life (1931, published a year before her death, which occurred on October 9, 1932), summarizes in this single sentence the great aspiration of one of the deans of our journalism.
