The transatlantic life of Victoria Kent

Abstract

Victoria Kent lived beyond the Atlantic Ocean from 1948 to her death in 1987. She first lived in Mexico and since 1950 in New York, where she worked in the United Nations. Since 1952, Kent established a strong and close relationship with Louise Crane, sharing a cause —the defense of the Spanish Republic to whom was loyal until the end of her days— and also a life. With the passing of Franco and the Spanish transition to democracy, Victoria Kent saw a moment of hope regarding the recovery of Spanish Republican values that defended with brilliant intelligence during the 30s. Nevertheless, she soon realized that the agents of change would be younger men and women from later generations. However, she went back to Spain twice and accepted enthusiastically the invitation of the Malaga Athenæum to take part in a tribute to Picasso that she eventually could not attend. In those times, Kent wrote several contributions for El País that are available for consultation at the digital archive of this newspaper.