The master of the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito Prez Galds, is the subject of New Galds Studies, offered in memory of John Varey, author of Galds Studies, the foundational text for contemporary Galdosian scholarship. Eamonn Rodgers describes Galds's early readership and reception; James Whiston illustrates Galds's creativity in Lo prohibido; Rhian Davies explores the enrichment of the novelist's language in Torquemada en la Cruz; Teresa Fuentes Peris demonstrates Galds's radical critique of dominant social assumptions in Fortunata y Jacinta; Alex Longhurst deals with the representation of poverty in Misericordia while Lisa Cond detects a feminist intention in Tristana; Eric Southworth finds rich cultural and spiritual allusion in the same work; Nichols Round relates the deaths of children in the Torquemada novels and Angel Guerra to end-of-century ideological concerns.