21
See Guimerá Peraza, Maura y Galdós, p. 134.
22
It is a pleasure to thank my colleague Seymour Menton (University of California at Irvine) for suggesting this study and sharing insights the gained when teaching Pepita Jiménez and Doña Perfecta sequentially.
23
«Novel and Society: Doña Perfecta», Anales Galdosianos, 11 (1976), 15.
24
For details see Gifford Davis, «The Spanish Debate over Idealism and Realism before the Impact of Zola's Naturalism», PMLA, 84 (1969), 1649-56.
25
The Revista de España listed Galdós as editor from January 1872 through October 1873.
26
H. Chonon Berkowitz says that Don Benito was satisfied with neither Valera's Pepita Jiménez nor Alarcón's El escándalo (Pérez Galdós: Spanish Liberal Crusader [Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1948] pp. 133-34).
27
Pérez Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta (Madrid: La Guirnalda, 1918), IV, 294.
28
The fictional time is April 1876 (pp. 278, 303), the same month in which Galdós had finished Doña Perfecta.
29
Berkowitz, p. 134.
30
Berkowitz, p. 133.