Abstract

The narrative by Fanny Garrido from A Coruña is a representative sample of how the debate about the emancipation of women experienced a rise in the second half of the 19th century. This paper aims, on the one hand, to rescue Garrido’s work, unknown to the public and critics. On the other, to address how the author’s liberal ideology, regarding female education and work, penetrates her two main novels: Escaramuzas (1885) and La madre de Paco Pardo (1898), through exhaustive analysis and based on studies about women’s situation at this time as well on the thoughts of some of her contemporaries such as Concepción Arenal.