Originally from Barcelona, she was born into a bourgeois family of Alternate Empordà origin. On her father"s side, she was related to the engineer and intellectual Narcis Monturiol. On her mother"s side, she was related to writer and politician Josep Puig Pujades.
She grew up in an intellectual and artistic environment, and received the typical women"s education of the liberal bourgeoisie of the time.
She also studied music, and at the age of 20, began a career as a concert pianist.
Since childhood, she felt a special fascination for the theater. Montoriol was also interested in writing, and wrote her first poems around 1920, some of which were published in magazines. Reading her poetry in public sparked an interest in languages, prompting her to teach the first Catalan courses taught at the Pompeu Fabra Institute of Catalan Studies.
In addition to Catalan and Castilian, she learned French, English, German, and Italian.
Knowledge of these languages, led her to appreciate the great European thinkers and writers, and many times to translate, for the sheer pleasure of lieutenant In 1928, she published the Catalan translation of the sonnets of Shakespeare, in verse, respecting the original structure.
A translation of the works of Pompeu Fabra appeared in 1928 and caused a stir among the Catalan intellectual world because of the difficulty project Being one of the first women who wrote plays in Catalonia, she quickly became renowned among critics and the public.
Having feminist convictions, she participated in cultural revitalization as a lecturer and head of the Lyceum Club of Barcelona.
