Fernán Caballero (24 December 1796 - 7 April 1877) was the pseudonym adopted from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real by the Spanish novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Arrom de Ayala. December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Ciudad Real is a city in Castile-La Mancha, Spain, the capital of the province of Ciudad Real. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

Born at Morges in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Johan Nikolas Bohl von Faber, a Hamburg merchant, who lived long in Spain, married a native of Cadiz, and is creditably known to students of Spanish literature as the editor of the Floresta de rirnas antiguas castelianas (1821-1825), and the Teatro espanol anterior a Lope de Vega (1832). Educated principally at Hamburg, she visited Spain in 1815, and, unfortunately for herself, in 1816 married Antonio Planells y Bardaxi, an infantry captain of bad character. In the following year Planells was killed in action, and in 1822 the young widow married Francisco Ruiz del Arco, marques de Arco Hermoso, an officer in one of the Spanish household regiments. Morges is a commune in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district and is also the seat of Morges. ... This article is about the Spanish city. ... Spanish literature may refer to: literature composed in the Spanish language literature of Spain in any of the languages of Spain It may include Spanish poetry, prose and novels. ... 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Position of Hamburg in Germany Hamburgs central broadway Jungfernstieg at the Alster lake, between 1900 and 1914 This article is about the city in Germany. ... 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Upon the death of Arco Hermoso in 1835, the marquesa found herself in straitened circumstances, and in less than two years she married Antonio Arrn de Ayala, a man considerably her junior. Arrn was appointed consul in Australia, engaged in business enterprises and made money; but unfortunate speculations drove him to commit suicide in 1859. Ten years earlier the name of Fernán Caballero became famous in Spain as the author of La Gaviola. The writer had already published in German an anonymous romance, Sole (1840), and curiously enough the original draft of La Gaviota was written in French. This novel, translated into Spanish by Jose Joaquin de Mora, appeared as the feuilleton of El lleraldo (1849), and was received with marked favor. Ochoa, a prominent critic of the day, ratified the popular judgment, and hopefully proclaimed the writer to be a rival of Walter Scott. No other Spanish book of the 19th century has obtained such instant and universal recognition. It was translated into most European languages, and, though it scarcely seems to deserve the intense enthusiasm which it excited, it is the best of its author's works, with the possible exception of La Familia de Alvareda (which was written, first of all, in German). 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Ochoa brothers, Fabio, Jorge and Juan David, were important members of the Medellin cartel headed by Pablo Escobar. ... Sir Walter Scott (August 14, 1771 - September 21, 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Less successful attempts are Lady Virginia and Clemencia; but the short stories entitled Cuadros de Costumbres are interesting in matter and form, and Una en otra and Elia 6 la Espana treinta aos ha are excellent specimens of picturesque narration. It would be difficult to maintain that Fernan Caballero was a great literary artist, but it is certain that she was a born teller of stories and that she has a graceful style very suitable to her purpose. She came into Spain at a most happy moment, before the new order had perceptibly disturbed the old, and she brought to bear not alone a fine natural gift of observation, but a freshness of vision, undulled by long familiarity. She combined the advantages of being both a foreigner and a native.

In later publications she insisted too emphatically upon the moral lesson, and lost much of her primitive simplicity and charm; but we may believe~lier statement that, though she occasionally idealized circumstances, she was conscientious in choosing for her themes subjects which had occurred in her own experience. Hence she may be regarded as a pioneer in the realistic field, and this historical fact adds to her positive importance. For many years she was the most popular of Spanish writers, and the sensation caused by her death at Seville on the 7th of April 1877 proved that her truthfulness still attracted readers who were interested in records of national customs and manners.

Her Obras corn pletas are included in the Coleccion de escritores castellanos: a useful biography by Fernando de Gabriel Ruiz de Apodaca precedes the Ultimas producciones de Fernan Caballero (Seville, 1878).

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