Francisca Herrera Garrido

Francisca Herrera 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

• 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

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.