Francisca Herrera Garrido

Francisca Herrera Garrido.
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Herrera and the second or maternal family name is Garrido.

Francisca Herrera Garrido (1869 4 November 1950) was a Galician writer of poems and novels.

Biography

Born in La Coruña to a wealthy Galician aristocratic family, she lived in Madrid during most of her life. Though she wrote primarily in Galician,[1] she also wrote in Spanish. A contemporary of Sofía Casanova,[2] it was Rosalía de Castro who served as Herrera Garrido's literary model.[3] Conservative and antifeminist,[4] Herrera Garrido was "one of the first women to publish narrative in Galician".[5] She was the first woman elected as a permanent member of the Royal Galician Academy, and was honored on Galician Literature Day in 1987.[6]

Selected works

References

  1. Galerstein, Carolyn L.; McNerney, Kathleen (1 January 1986). Women Writers of Spain: An Annotated Bio-bibliographical Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 349–. ISBN 978-0-313-24965-5.
  2. Pérez, Janet (1996). Modern and Contemporary Spanish Women Poets. Twayne Publishers. ISBN 978-0-8057-4627-3.
  3. Pérez, Janet (1988). Contemporary women writers of Spain. Twayne Publishers. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8057-8229-5.
  4. Pérez (1988), p. 22
  5. Pérez, Janet; Ihrie, Maureen (2002). The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature: N-Z. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 576–. ISBN 978-0-313-32445-1.
  6. "Unha carta de Francisca Herrera Garrido" (in Galician). Real Academia Galega. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
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