FERNAN See also:

• FERNAN CABALLERO (1796-1877)

CABALLERO (1796-1877)  , the See also:

• PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym adopted from the name of a See also:

• VILLAGE

village in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• CIUDAD

Ciudad Real by the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish novelist See also:

• CECILIA, SAINT

Cecilia Francisca . Josefa Bohl de See also:

• FABER
• FABER (or LEFEVRE), JOHANN (1478-1541)
• FABER, BASIL (1520-c. 1576)
• FABER, FABRI
• FABER, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1814-1863)

Faber y Larrea . See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

Born at Morges in See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland on the 24th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1796, she was the daughter of Johan Nikolas Bohl von Faber, a See also:

• HAMBURG

Hamburg See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant, who lived See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long in See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, married a native of See also:

• CADIZ
• CADIZ (Cadiz)
• CADIZ (in Lat. Gades, and formerly called Cales by the English)

Cadiz, and is creditably known to students of Spanish literature as the editor of the Floresta de rimas antiguas castellanas (1821-1825), and the Teatro espanol anterior a Lope de See also:

• VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA
• VEGA, GARCILASO DE LA (1503-1536)

Vega (1832) . Educated principally at Hamburg, she visited Spain in 1815, and, unfortunately for herself, in 1816 married See also:

• ANTONIO
• ANTONIO (1429—1498)
• ANTONIO, NICOLAS (1617-1684)

Antonio Planells y Bardaxi, an See also:

• INFANTRY

infantry See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain of See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character . In the following See also:

• YEAR

year Planells was killed in See also:

• ACTION

action, and in 1822 the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young widowmarried Francisco See also:

• RUIZ, JUAN (c. 1283-c. 1350)

Ruiz del Arco, marques de Arco Hermoso, an officer in one of the Spanish See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household regiments . Upon the See also:

• DEATH

death of Arco Hermoso in 1835, the marquesa found herself in straitened circumstances, and in less than two years she married Antonio Arr6n de See also:

• AYALA, DON PEDRO LOPEZ DE (1332–1407)

Ayala, a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man considerably her junior . Arr6n was appointed See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul in See also:

• AUSTRALIA

Australia, engaged in business enterprises and made See also:

• MONEY

money; but unfortunate speculations drove him to commit See also:

• SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide in 1859 . Ten years earlier the name of Fernan See also:

• CABALLERO, FERNAN (1796-1877)

Caballero became famous in Spain as the author of La Gaviota . The writer had already published in See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German an See also:

• ANONYMOUS

anonymous See also:

• ROMANCE

romance, Sola (184o), and curiously enough the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original draft of La Gaviota was written in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French . This novel, translated into Spanish by Jose Joaquin de See also:

• MORA, JOSE (1638-1725)
• MORA, or MORRA (Ital. delay)

Mora, appeared as the See also:

• FEUILLETON (a diminutive of the Fr. feuillet, the leaf of a book)

feuilleton of El Heraldo (1849), and was received with marked favour . Ochoa, a prominent critic of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, ratified the popular See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment, and hopefully proclaimed the writer to be a See also:

• RIVAL

rival of See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)
• SCOTT, ROBERT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

Scott . No other Spanish See also:

• BOOK

book of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century has obtained such instant and universal recognition .

It was translated into most See also:

• EUROPEAN

European See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages, and, though it scarcely seems to deserve the intense See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm which it excited, it is the best of its author's See also:

• WORKS

works, with the possible exception of La Familia de Alvareda (which was written, first of all, in German) . Less successful attempts are See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady See also:

• VIRGINIA
• VIRGINIA, or VERGINIA
• VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Virginia and Clemencia; but the See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short stories entitled Cuadros de Costumbres are interesting in See also:

• MATTER

matter and See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, and Una en otra and Elia o la Espana treinta anos ha are excellent specimens of picturesque narration . It would be difficult to maintain that Fernan Caballero was a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• LITERARY

literary artist, but it is certain that she was a born See also:

• TELLER, WILHELM ABRAHAM (1734-1804)

teller of stories and that she has a graceful See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style very suitable to her purpose . She came into Spain at a most happy moment, before the new See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order had perceptibly disturbed the old, and she brought to See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear not alone a See also:

• FINE

fine natural See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of observation, but a freshness of See also:

• VISION (from Lat. videre, to see), or SIGHT

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 See also:

• LESSON (through Fr. lecon from Lat. lectio, reading; legere, to read)

lesson, and lost much of her See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive simplicity and See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm; but we may believellser 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 See also:

• PIONEER

pioneer in the realistic See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field, and this See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical fact adds to her See also:

• POSITIVE (or PORTABLE) ORGAN

positive importance . For many years she was the most popular of Spanish writers, and the sensation caused by her death at See also:

• SEVILLE
• SEVILLE (Span. Sevilla, Lat. Ispalis or Hispalis, Moorish Ishbiliya)

Seville on the 7th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1877 proved that her naive truthfulness still attracted readers who were interested in records of See also:

• NATIONAL

national customs and See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners . Her Obras completas are included in the Coleccion de escritores castellanos: a useful See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography by Fernando de See also:

• GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

Gabriel Ruiz de Apodaca precedes the Ultimas producciones de Ferndn Caballero (Seville, 1878) . (J . F.-K) .