Hilda Agostini

Daughter of an American businessman, Protestant and Freemason, and a young woman from Reus, Hilda Agostini Banús (Tarragona, 1890-Paris, 1976), with a very particular profile -protestant and freemason-, her career -teacher and politician- reveals an active and committed woman who took an active part in the renovation and progress projects of Catalan society in the 1920s and 1930s. She participated in the movement of the renovating schools and in the associationism (member of the Lyceum Club) that led to the sociability and mobilization of the women's movement, to the point that she became politically committed to republican Catalanism, actively participating in the task of making propaganda during the Republic and the Civil War. Exiled to France, she continued relations with French Freemasonry, left-wing republicanism and Protestant circles.