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Caballero, Fernán (pseudonym) (1796 - 1877)

Short name Caballero, Fernán (pseudonym)
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/1473159248452904870007/
First name Caecilia
Birth name Böhl de Faber
Married name , ,
Alternative name Böhl de Faber, Caecilia — Boehl von Faber, Cecilia
Date of birth 1796
Date of death 1877
Flourishing -
Sex Female
Place of birth Morges (Vaud)
Place of death Sevilla
Lived in Hamburg , Puerto Rico , Cadiz
Place of residence notes
Valeriano Bécquer, Retrato de dama (Cecilia Böhl de Faber), 1858 (Museo Nacional del Romanticismo)
Mother
Father Böhl von Faber, Johann Nikolaus
Children
Religion / ideology Catholic
Education Educated at home, School education
Aristocratic title -
Professional or ecclesiastical title -
Caballero, Fernán (pseudonym) was ...
related to Sáez de Melgar, Faustina
related to Francisca de Larrea
Profession(s)
Memberships
Place(s) of Residence Hamburg (1806-1813) , Puerto Rico (1816-1818) , Cadiz (1813-1816)
Author of
receptions circulations
*Passages in her novel La Gaviota (1849) 0 0
La gaviota (1849) 17 1
La flor del Lililá (1850) 1 0
Juan Holgado y la muerte (1850) 1 0
El ex-voto (1850) 0 0
Cosa cumplida solo en la otra vida (1850) 0 0
La hija del sol (1851) 0 0
Pobre Dolores (1852) 1 0
Clemencia: novela de costumbres (1852) 9 0
Con mal o con bien, a los tuyos te tien (For better or for worse, stick to your family) (1854) 0 0
Obras completas de Fernan Caballero (1855) 1 0
La familia de Alvareda (1856) 8 0
Una en otra: novela de costumbres (1856) 0 0
*Mention in private letters (1857)
is also a reception 		0 0
Un servilón y un liberalito o Tres almas de Dios (1857) 2 0
Relaciones [Relations] (1857) 2 0
La madre, episodio de la batalla de Trafalgar (The mother, episode from the battle of Trafalgar) (1857) 0 0
Lady Virginia (1858) 0 0
Las ánimas (1859) 1 0
*Open Letter in La Esperanza (1859)
is also a reception 		0 0
La suegra del diablo (1859) 1 0
Cuentos y poesías populares andaluces, coleccionados por Fernán Caballero (1859) 0 0
Juan Soldado (1859) 1 0
*Spaansche novellen (Spanish novels) (1860~) 2 2
Lagrimas (1860) 4 0
Colección de artículos religiosos y morales [A collectin of religious and moral articles] (1862) 0 0
Los dos memoriales [The two petitions] (1863) 0 0
Estudio sobre el hombre [A study of man] (1863) 0 0
Lucas Garcia (1864) 3 0
Un verano a Bornos (1864) 1 0
*Spaansch klaverblad : vier verhalen (Spanish cloverleaf : four stories) (1865~) 2 0
*Poslednja tolažba (The Last Consolation) (1865) 1 0
Prólogo (1866)
is also a reception: is preface of Aniana o La quinta de Peralta 		0 0
*Ausgewählte Werke (Selected works) (1870~) 0 1
Elia (1875) 1 0
Pobres y Ricos (1890) 1 0
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Circulations of Caballero, Fernán (pseudonym), the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Date Type

Receptions of Caballero, Fernán (pseudonym), the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title Author Date Type
Le roman des moeurs en Espagne. Fernan Caballero et ses recits Mazade, Charles de 1858 comments on person
*Discussion of Caballero's reaction to an article comparing her to Avellaneda and Coronado Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1859 comments on person
Ueber den realistischen Roman und das Sittengemaelde bei den Spaniern in der neuesten Zeit, mit besonderer Beziehung auf die Werke von Fernan Caballero (von Ferdinand Wolf) [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] 1859 comments on person
A Spanish Novelist UNKNOWN [author, various, name and sex unknown] 1859 comments on person
Jorge Sand y Fernan Caballero / A. J. de Vidósola ~~journalist (name below) 1859 comments on person
*Article about Fernan Caballero (considered to be a man) *Article about Fernan Caballero Potgieter, Everardus Johannes 1861 comments on person
The Novels of Fernan Caballero UNKNOWN [author, various, name and sex unknown] 1861 comments on person
Advertencia (Note) Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1861 -
(No title) Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1865 -
Modern Writers of Spain UNKNOWN [author, various, name and sex unknown] 1867 comments on person
Nederlandsche vertalingen van Fernan Caballero's werken Pieter Nicolaas Muller 1867 comments on person
Fernan Caballero Pieter Nicolaas Muller 1867 comments on person
Recent Spanish Romances UNKNOWN [author, various, name and sex unknown] 1868 comments on person
Fernan Caballero [unknown journalist, female] 1877 comments on person
Fernan Caballero [by John H. Ingram] [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] 1877 comments on person
Fernan Caballero Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1877 is obituary of
Fernan Caballero Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1877 is obituary of
Fernan Caballero [by Wentworth Webster] ~~journalist (name below) 1877 is obituary of
Fernán Caballero, escritora realista Gimeno de Flaquer, María de la Concepción 1891 comments on person
Seudonimos Españoles Spanish Pseudonyms Eugenio Hartzenbusch e Hiriart 1892 lists person
Fernán-Caballero. Estudio biográfico [by José María Asensio y Toledo] [unidentified author, multiple, separate records to be made] 1893 is biography of
Celebridades Catolicas: Fernán Caballero Catholic Celebrities: Fernán Caballero [unidentified author, multiple, separate records to be made] 1896 is biography of
P. Luis Coloma Lampe, Frančišek 1899 -
P. Luis Coloma. Življenjepisna in literarna črtica Frančišek Perne 1901 -
Recuerdos de Fernán Caballero [by Luis Coloma] [unidentified author, multiple, separate records to be made] 1910 is biography of
Valeriano Bécquer, Retrato de dama (Cecilia Böhl de Faber), 1858 (Museo Nacional del Romanticismo) None is portrait of

MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "[...] was acknowledged as Spain's most prestigious novelist" cf . Wiedemann, Sand, in Oeuvres et Critiques.

- On the difficulties of referencing and classifying her works:
"The first two editions of her Obras completas were printed in 16 volumes by Mellado (1861-1864), and there have been several subsequent editions, all in Madrid. There is also José María Castro's edition, Obras de Fernán Caballero (1961).The absence of a reliable edition of her works adds to the critical obstacles in cross-listing her references. Furthermore, classifications of her short fiction present difficulties [...]"
(Janet Perez, Maureen Ihrie (2002): The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature: N-Z, p. 562)
Attended French boarding school in Hamburg. Married three times, widowed three times.
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