A teacher, politician and activist who promoted the Popular Library for Women and the Institute of Culture, pioneering places that enabled women workers to gain access to training. Women's education and skills acquisition was vital for achieving self-sufficiency and emancipation, fundamental issues on the path towards equality. The Library was a Board of Cooperative Women initiative and it opened in 1909. This was the first library for women at a European level. Some years later it became the Institute of Culture and Popular Library for Women (better known as La Cultura), which offered classes on feminism, mercantile calculations and stenography, all linked to the public and professional sphere that helped to empower women with skilled jobs. Since the start of the 1920s, the Institute of Culture, now the Espai Francesca Bonnemaison, has been close to the Urquinaona metro station.
A pedagogue, politician and activist, she promoted the Biblioteca Popular de la Dona and the Institute of Culture, which gave working women access to training.