This article is an excerpt from my Master’s Thesis, which aims not only to analyze the relationship between Spain and England during the 19th and 20th centuries, but also to reconstruct the image of England from the point of view of five Spanish travellers, namely Eugenio de Ochoa (1815-1872), Emilio Alcalá-Galiano y Valencia (1831-1914), Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Pío Baroja (1872-1956), and Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932). After giving a general overview of the relations between the two countries, this paper focuses on a comparative analysis of the travel accounts by the authors mentioned above, trying to detect their thematic constants as well as a series of revealing observations concerning the Spanish attitude towards the British.…
