Word: constancia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PLACE OF SPLENDOR-Constancia de la Mora-Harcourt, Brace...
...PLACE OF SPLENDOR-Constancia de la Mora-Harcourt, Brace...
...Constancia de la Mora was born in Madrid, in 1906. Her grandfather Don Antonio, an old man of majestic beauty, was Spain's greatest statesman; and she was subjected to the petrifying education which was the privilege of females of her class. When she was 20, in spotless ignorance, she married a pathic provincial nearly seven feet tall, who gave her a daughter and lived off her money...
...Constancia de la Mora's story of her life could serve, if one were needed, or if all others were destroyed, as a history of Spain in the 20th Century...