Fanny Garrido

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 A Coruña in 1846, to military doctor Francisco González Garrido del Amo and Josefa García Cuenca. She married the composer Marcial del Adalid, who set many of her poems to music. In 1873 she gave birth to their daughter, María del Adalid, who became a painter. After the death of her husband, Garrido married Lugo chemist . writing under the pseudonym Eulalia de Liáns. The most notable of her works is the autobiographical novel Escaramuzas, published in 1885,

Honors Fanny Garrido was a correspondent of the Royal Galician Academy.

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Works Escaramuzas, 1885 La madre de Paco Pardo, 1898 Batallas (unpublished)