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Presentation of the book 'I write to you all' by Soledad Maura Fox
“I wrote the book that I would have liked to read”
This is how Soledad Maura describes the research work surrounding María Manuela Kirkpatrick's letters, kept in the Casa De Alba archive, which she would carry out as the basis of her historical novel “I write to you all”.
On April 1, the presentation of this novel took place, which serves as a starting point for getting to know one of the most important and at the same time unknown figures in the history of Spain and France: María Manuela Kirkpatrick, the widow countess of Montijo.
Most of the letters in the novel are addressed to her beloved daughters: Eugenia, Empress of the French, and Paca, Duchess of Alba, and, like a set of Russian dolls, they contain lives intertwined over generations.
This novel takes us from England to Madrid, from Malaga to Granada and Paris, from the Duchy of Alba to the French Empire, in a vertiginous 19th century in which María Manuela and her daughters were the most famous women in all of Europe.
What was the Countess like? What worried you during your last years of life? To whom would you write your last letters? You can find all the answers in the novel “I am writing to you all: Letters from María Manuela Kirkpatrick, mother of Eugenia de Montijo and the Duchess De Alba” now on sale at the Palacio de Liria store.