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

Biography

Born in

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to a wealthy Galician aristocratic family, she lived in

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during most of her life. Though she wrote primarily in Galician, she also wrote in Spanish. A contemporary of Sofía Casanova, it was

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who served as Herrera Garrido's literary model. Conservative and antifeminist,Pérez (1988), p. 22 Herrera Garrido was "one of the first women to publish narrative in Galician". She was the first woman elected as a permanent member of the

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, and was honored on

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in 1987.

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Herrera Garrido, Francisca 1869 births 1950 deaths People from A Coruña Galician-language writers Spanish women poets Spanish women novelists 20th-century Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish women writers