Margarita de Mayo Izarra


Margarita de Mayo Izarra was a Spanish writer, teacher, and journalist.

Professional career

Margarita de Mayo, after obtaining the title of teacher of Primary Higher Education, taught at a graduate school for girls in Valdepeñas from 1914 to 1918.
Beginning in mid-1918 she worked at the secretariat of the , being responsible, from the end of that year until 1924, for teaching in the preparatory section at the.
In 1921 she began to study, thanks to scholarships granted to her, in Great Britain, where she obtained a place at King's College for Women in London.
In 1924 Mayo was named a pensioner of the JAE to attend Vassar College in New York, where she ended up being a permanent member of the Spanish Department until she retired in 1956. She also worked for a time as an instructor at the University of Illinois.
Of her work, her journalistic side is the best known. Her beginnings as a journalist took place in the 1930s, when she began to publish in the provincial and limited circulation press, such as El Bien Público, a monarchic newspaper of Mahón, and La Correspondencia Militar, Madrid Científico, and of Madrid. She sometimes signed her articles as M. de Mayo Izarra, and in them she tried to familiarize Spanish readers with American cities such as New York and the American way of life.

Works