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How can one lose the historical trail of a woman who rubbed elbows with Lamartine or Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, who was Alexandre Dumas's literary agent for Spanish-speaking countries, who frequented the court of Elizabeth II, who was protected by the president Mexican Porfirio Díaz and who saw how two biographies about his adventures were published during his lifetime? Pura Fernández has skillfully navigated the labyrinth of documents, facts, doubts and contradictions that surround Emilia Serrano García, self-proclaimed Baroness Wilson, and reveals to us, with great narrative pulse, her true face. Ella, through her life, also reconstructs the story of the enterprising women who, relegated to the background of history, reformulated all the traditional stereotypes of nineteenth-century society. This novelistic plot not only reveals how one can go from being a successful cultural businesswoman in the Paris of Eugenia de Montijo and Napoleon III, an acclaimed traveler in all the American republics and the promoter of transatlantic relations between Spain and its former colonies, to die ruined and forgotten, but not defeated; It also shows, above all, how it is possible to achieve success and cultural authority from a problematic position (as a non-normative woman) through wise management of the social networks of the moment and a very modern concept of contemporary celebrity.