Francisca González Garrido (1 September 1846 – 11 September 1917), better known as Fanny Garrido, was a Galician writer and translator.

Biography

Fanny Garrido was born in

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in 1846, to military doctor Francisco González Garrido del Amo and Josefa García Cuenca. She married the composer Marcial del Adalid, who musicalized many of her poems. In 1873 she gave birth to their daughter, María del Adalid, who became a noted painter. After the death of her husband, Garrido married

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chemist . She contributed to the Madrid newspapers ''Galicia'' and ''El Correo'', writing under the pseudonym Eulalia de Liáns. The most notable of her works is the autobiographical novel ''Escaramuzas'', published in 1885, which she dedicated to her friend

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(with whom she had co-founded the Galician Folklore Society in 1884). She was also a translator of the German poets

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and

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Honors

Fanny Garrido was a correspondent of the

Royal Galician Academy The Royal Galician Academy (, RAG) is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language. The Academy is bas ...

. In December 1971, a street was named for her in her home city of A Coruña.

Works

* ''Escaramuzas'', 1885 * ''La madre de Paco Pardo'', 1898 * ''Batallas'' (unpublished)

References

External links

Fanny Garrido's translation of Goethe's ''Italian Journey''
at

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