María Mercedes Vial

María Mercedes Vial Solar (1863–1942), also known as María Mercedes Vial de Ugarte  or by her literary pseudonym Serafia, was a Chilean feminist writer and novelist.

Her parents were Wenceslao Vial y Guznián and Luisa Solar y Marín.

For some authors, her work can be framed within so-called "aristocratic feminism", along with other writers such as Inés Echeverría Bello, Mariana Cox Méndez, Teresa Wilms Montt, María Luisa Fernández, and the sisters Ximena and Carmen Morla Lynch.

Works

 * Cosas que fueron (novel, Santiago: Zig-Zag, 1917)
 * Amor que no muere (novel, Santiago: Editorial Nascimiento, 1929)
 * Algo pasado de moda : conferencias dadas en el Club de Señoras (Santiago: Impr. Cervantes, 1926)