Carmen de Burgos, recognised as Spain's first professional female journalist and a pivotal feminist figure, belonged to the Generation of '98. Writing under the pseudonym Colombine, she launched the trailblazing column Lecturas para la mujer (Readings for Women) in Diario Universal in 1903, championing women's rights with vigour. Following extensive travels across Europe (1905) and her election to the Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid (Madrid Press Association) (1907), she made history in 1909 as Spain's first female war correspondent, reporting from Melilla where she delivered scathing critiques of the conflict. She founded the Hispano-Israeli Alliance in 1908 and led Madrid's inaugural women's suffrage demonstration in 1921. Her two-decade personal and creative partnership with Ramón Gómez de la Serna profoundly influenced literary avant-garde circles. An ardent republican, she welcomed the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic and its reforms in 1931. Following 1939, her extensive body of work fell victim to systematic suppression under Franco's censorship regime.