My name is Emilia del Valle

My name is Emilia del Valle

The latter opened in San Francisco in 1873, presenting Emilia at the age of 7, the illegitimate daughter of Molly Walsh, who as a novice nun was seduced and abandoned by the rich Chilean Gonzalo Andres del Val. Molly continues to a successful marriage, Emilia grew up with a loving stepmother, and at 17 she began to write, after which she published, Dime’s sensational novels under the pseudonym Brandon J. Price. Up to 23 years she is a journalist with a column in Daily checkingAlthough she is still forced to hide her gender behind her pen name. The breakdown of the rules is in her nature, and as she accepts, for now, a more pay than men, she decides to travel to New York to take a lover and learn to control her own contraception. Later, finally writing under her own name, she is entrusted to go to Chile and cover her civil war from the human angle, accompanied by her colleague and friend Eric Willon, whose focus is the military aspect. The Chilean revolutionary policy creates less reading, but Emilia’s individual meetings with members of the atmosphere of a high and low society occupy an atmosphere. They include the president, a great aunt, and eventually her father – now alone, regretting and mortally ill. Although he does not approve of working women, the two share “the desire to see the world and to experience everything intense”, and when he proposes to recognize Emilia as her legal child, she accepts. Now the story is gathering the pace, like Emilia – and predictably rebels – mastered the horrors of the battle, finding that she and Eric are in love and arrested. Not quite plausible, it prompts an additional sequence of impulsive movements before the story is allowed to end.