Francisca Herrera Garrido

Francisca Herrera Garrido (1869 – 4 November 1950) was a Galician writer of poems and novels.

Born in La Coruña to a wealthy Galician aristocratic family, she lived in Madrid during most of her life.

A contemporary of Sofía Casanova,[2] it was Rosalía de Castro who served as Herrera Garrido's literary model.

[3] Conservative and antifeminist,[4] Herrera Garrido was "one of the first women to publish narrative in Galician".

[5] She was the first woman elected as a permanent member of the Royal Galician Academy, and was honored on Galician Literature Day in 1987.