Oculto sendero, an unpublished novel and literary testament by Elena Fortún (1885-1952), is finally coming to light. Fortún wrote this fictionalized autobiography during her exile in Argentina and signed it with the pseudonym Rosa María Castaños. The protagonist is María Luisa Arroyo, a painter and formerly a girl who wanted to dress as a sailor, an alter ego of the author. The path of her life is the journey toward understanding her homosexuality, a path that progresses alongside the knowledge and realization of the protagonist’s artistic and intellectual potential. After a childhood narrated in the purest Fortún style, María Luisa Arroyo will gradually leave behind, like the creator of the unforgettable Celia, the dictates of conventional femininity to enter an inevitable and also heartbreaking modernity. Set in Spain before 1936, Oculto sendero offers a unique and necessary portrait of the intimacy and struggle of an exceptional woman. Elena Fortún (Madrid, 1886-1952). Creator of the famous Celia novels, the most emblematic child character in Spanish literature, she began publishing the adventures of this Madrid girl who wanted to be a writer in 1928 in the children’s supplement Gente Menuda. Through her experiences and those of the other protagonists of the saga (Cuchifritín, Matonkikí, Patita, and Mila), Elena Fortún built a faithful chronicle of the most turbulent years of 20th-century Spain with the extraordinary and faithful vision of characters who, like their creator, never fully adapted to the modern world. María Jesús Fraga. Doctor in Spanish Philology, she has written the book Elena Fortún, periodista. Focused on research and the reissue of the work of the creator of Celia and other authors of her time, she has participated in the publication of the anthology El camino es nuestro, with texts by Elena Fortún and Matilde Ras. Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles is a professor of Hispanic and Gender Studies at the University of Exeter. Her teaching and research work has focused on the history of feminist thought and female authorship in Spain. She has published books and articles about Elena Fortún and other Spanish writers, painters, and intellectuals active in the first half of the 20th century. Among her titles in Spanish are Autoras inciertas, Artistas y precursoras, the translation He de tener libertad, and the critical anthology El camino es nuestro, with texts by Elena Fortún and Matilde Ras.