Take Six Six Spanish Women Writers is an anthology of short stories by six outstanding Spanish women writers Emilia Pardo Bazn 18511921 Carmen de Burgos 18671932 Carmen Laforet 19212004 Cristina Fernndez Cubas born 1945 Soledad Purtolas born 1947 and Patricia Erls born 1972. The stories span over one hundred years starting with the indomitable Emilia Pardo Bazn whose casual and often humorous protrayal of brutal domestic violence set a paradigm for the writers who followed her to explore ever