SOURCE: "How and Why Emilia Pardo Bazan Went from the Novel to the Short Story," in Romance Notes, Vol. 11, 1969, pp. 309-14.

In the following essay, Sanchez describes Pardo Bazán's shift in artistic focus toward short fiction.

Emilia Pardo Bazán published her first novel, Pascual López, autobiografía de un estudiante de medicina in 1879, and her last of twenty novels, Dulce dueño in 1911. Between 1879 and 1890 she published ten of her twenty novels and only nine of over five hundred short stories. In what here will be called her second period of writing, that is from 1900 to 1919, Pardo Bazán dedicated more and more of her time each year to the short story and less to the novel. During these last years she wrote close to three hundred short stories and only four novels. The last eight years of this period were dedicated solely to the...