Maria Baldó i Massanet (July 2, 1884 - February 17, 1964) was a Spanish pedagogue, feminist, ethnologist, and folklorist. She was involved in the political, social, cultural, and educational fields of Catalonia. Biography She was a daughter of Santiago Baldó i Domènech and Maria Mansanet (or Massanet) i Santacreu. She came to live in Catalonia as a child. Trained as a folklorist, at the age of just over twenty, there is already evidence of various activities, such as the evening organized by the (School of Institutions and Other Careers for Women), in which she read her work Notas sobre las mujeres del Quixote (Notes on the women of the Quixote). From her first marriage with Josep Serra Chartó (died 1911), her son, , was born in 1909. Baldo wrote for several periodicals, such as La Veu de Catalunya, Una védade, Art jove, Companya, Portantveu del Club Femení i d’esports de Barcelona, La Dona Catalana, and while in French exile, Tramontane. She stood out among the women who shaped the first Catalan feminist movement at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1910, she taught a course on "Women's culture" at , which she published in book form. On April 28, 1912, she published the article (About female school education) in the women's magazine Feminal. In 1933, she published El libro del hogar (The home book), which was republished on several occasions. In 1916, she took part in conferences on women's education, also at Ateneu, alongside other speakers such as Carmen Karr, Leonor Serrano, and Dolors Monserdà. As a teacher, her career was closely linked to the La Farigola de Vallcarca school (currently, Escola La Farigola de Vallcarca). The school was established on March 27, 1922, the first female school of the (School Board of the Barcelona City Council). She herself assumed the direction as headmistress and collaborated closely with to get state teachers to take the places of the other new municipal school groups. Likewise, she was part of the committee that selected the teachers. In those months, she assumed the role of Dean of Teachers in Barcelona. Baldó also acted as a free assistant teacher at the Escola Normal de Barcelona. Baldo spoke at many conferences, also radio broadcasts. The most common themes were literature, children's games, and women's education. She called for the creation of specialized schools for the training of women and for the preparation for motherhood.