page_title: José Pascual de Liñán y Eguizábal
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hierarchical_section_title: José Pascual de Liñán y Eguizábal / Author
caption_attribution_description: English: san pedro y san pablo
context_page_description: José Pascual de Liñán y Eguizábal, Count of Doña Marina was a Spanish writer, publisher and a Carlist politician. He is known mostly as the manager of two Traditionalist dailies, issued in the 1890s and 1900s in the Vascongadas, and as the author of minor works related to jurisprudence and history. As a politician he briefly headed the Carlist regional party organization in Castile, though he is recognized rather as an architect of political rebranding of Carlism in the late 19th century.
context_section_description: Already as a child José demonstrated a knack for letters; his 1871 poem was printed in a religious review. The interest was developed during his teenage years: in 1875 he used to publish theatrical reviews, in 1876 he established firm co-operation with a literary periodical La Revista, and in 1879 he went on publishing juvenile poetry. He kept writing rhymes also later on, though they were reserved mostly for private audience. It is only by the end of his life that Doña Marina resumed publishing brief poetical pieces; few of them went into print in 1928 and 1929. Revolving around the same religious topics as verses written 50 years earlier they demonstrated also the same unshaken faith. Already juvenile works revealed a penchant for melancholy; it governs unchallenged in his late lyrics. Moderately contributing to Carlism in literature, by some foreigners he was considered him "the best Spanish poet".
  Works which earned Doña Marina a reputation of an erudite and intellectual are medium-size academic or semi-academic studies, published as articles in scientific and literary reviews, as stand-alone booklets or as sections of larger compilation books. Their number does not exceed 40 titles; they chiefly fall into 3 areas: law, letters and history.
  Liñán's juridical studies deal mostly with constitutional law and tend to be slightly flavored with politics, approached from Traditionalist perspective; other tackle civil law or regulations related to nobility, apart from studies on history of Spanish law, including one brief synthetic attempt. Almost all are of purely historical value; the exception is analysis of hereditary regulations, quoted in juridical scientific discourse as late as in 1966. Historical works focus on early modern period and are usually formatted as biographical studies, with some pieces clearly forming part of genealogy or heraldry; many exploit author's own family links. The single one which remains a point of reference until today is the work on Aragon heraldic issues. Studies on history of literature also tend to deal with personalities rather than with broad phenomena. Numerous minor works published in popular periodicals and formatted as reviews form part of ongoing critique and are not acknowledged here. Finally, Lo que pide el obrero (1890) was a unique attempt to tackle the social question. Though profoundly religious, he has never published a strictly confessional work; he did not live to complete Iconografía Mariana Española.
  Throughout all his life Doña Marina contributed to various periodicals, usually providing essays related to history, literature and religion. Except El Correo Español almost all of them are either local or ephemeral publications; he has not published in any of the established reviews. His pen-names identified were "E. Quis", "Jaime de Lobera", "Tirso de Aragón", "Pedro Pablo de Larrea" and "El Bachiller Zamudio". In the late Restoration he was counted among "publicistas eminentisimos" of Traditionalism.
caption: San Pedro y San Pablo
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