Fanny Garrido


Francisca González Garrido, 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 musicalized many of her poems. In 1873 she gave birth to their daughter,, who became a noted painter. After the death of her husband, Garrido married Lugo 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 Emilia Pardo Bazán. She was also a translator of the German poets Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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