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, she also wrote in Spanish. A contemporary of Sofía Casanova, it was Rosalía de Castro who served as Herrera Garrido's literary model. Conservative and antifeminist, 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 Royal Galician Academy, and was honored on Galician Literature Day 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