Mateos, Aurora
Mateos, Aurora(n.d.), Spanish 20th‐century writer. For years she was the editor of Bazar, a magazine for adolescent girls that began to be published after the Spanish Civil War (1936–9) and became a transmitter of the feminine ideal as it was defined by the official ideologists of Franco's military regime. In Bazar, Mateos published children's plays, saints' lives, and numerous fairy tales of her own. Two recurring characters in Mateos's works became very well known: Doña Sabionda, a good‐hearted and plump fairy, and Guillermina, a candid and naughty girl whose life was full of adventures. A great number of Mateos's plays can be considered as fairy tales in dramatic form. Some examples of these are: La hija de Blanca Nieves (Snow White's Daughter, 1947), El reino de la felicidad (The Kingdom of Happiness, 1948), and La princesa Remilgadina (Princess Remilgadina, 1949).
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