Francisca Herrera Garrido Explained

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

• Sorrisas e bágoas, 1913
• Almas de muller...¡volallas na luz!, 1915
• Frores do noso paxareco, 1919
• Néveda, 1920
• A ialma de Mingos, 1922
• Pepiña, 1922
• Martes de Antroido, 1925
• Réproba, 1925
• A neta de naipera, 1925
• Familia de lobos, 1928

Notes and References

1. Book: Galerstein. Carolyn L.. McNerney. Kathleen. Women Writers of Spain: An Annotated Bio-bibliographical Guide. 1 January 1986. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-24965-5. 349–.
2. Book: Pérez, Janet. Modern and Contemporary Spanish Women Poets. 1996. Twayne Publishers. 978-0-8057-4627-3.
3. Book: Pérez, Janet. Contemporary women writers of Spain. registration. 1988. Twayne Publishers. 978-0-8057-8229-5. 22.
4. Pérez (1988), p. 22
5. Book: Pérez. Janet. Ihrie. Maureen. The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature: N-Z. 2002. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-32445-1. 576–.
6. Web site: Unha carta de Francisca Herrera Garrido. Real Academia Galega. Galician. 21 May 2018.