In their comparative study of Medieval and Renaissance European women
writers, Pamela Benson and Victoria Kirkham, exploring the relationship between Italian
women writers and their English and French counterparts, assumed a "dynamic
interaction" existed.
Despite the absence of Spanish women writers in that collection when observing
the themes and writing strategies ofModerata Fonte and Maria de Zayas Sotomayor, one
can observe a number of similarities that points toward a dynamic interaction and
moreover, to the transmission of proto-feminist ideas along "memory chains".