The playwright Àngel Guimerà (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1845 - Barcelona, 1924) took practically two years to give his approval for Terra baixa to be performed in the United States. "I don't think he took this project very seriously and he didn't know who Mrs. Fiske was," explains Sharon G. Feldman, a professor at the University of Richmond (Virginia). For a decade, she has traced the journey of Guimerà's works in North America to confirm their impact on theaters at the beginning of the 20th century. The result is explained in Guimerà a Amèrica. Set dones per a un fenomen transatlàntic (L'Avenç; translated by Pere Bramon), a book that demonstrates that Terra baixa and Maria Rosa made a mark on the North American stage.