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Frances Calderón de la Barca (1804–1882)

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(eng) Please do not combine or confuse her with the 17th-century male dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Some of the name files are corrupted and will combine erroneously.

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Vedertaget namn
Calderón de la Barca, Frances
Andra namn
Marquise de Calderón de la Barca
Madame Calderón de la Barca
Inglis, Frances Erskine (birth)
Calderón de la Barca, Fanny
Födelsedag
1804-12-23
Avled
1882-02-06
Kön
female
Nationalitet
Scotland
UK
Födelseort
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Bostadsorter
Mexico City, Mexico
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Madrid, Spain
Yrken
memoirist
travel writer
novelist
Kort biografi
Frances "Fanny" Erskine Inglis was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, one of 10 children of a lawyer, and was well-educated. After her father's death, she emigrated with other family members to the USA, settling in Boston and then in New York City. In 1838, she married Don Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano, a Spanish nobleman and diplomat 15 years her senior. She accompanied him on his posting to Mexico City as the first ambassador Spain to the Republic of Mexico following its independence. Her experiences there included two revolutions, some long journeys on horseback and by carriage, and many social events. Her book Life in Mexico (1843) is based on long letters she wrote to family and friends back home during the years 1839 to 1841. She also wrote the novel Gertrude: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1830) and The Attaché in Madrid or Sketches of the Court of Isabella II (1856). After Mexico, the couple lived in Washington, D.C. and then in Spain, where her husband served as
a senator in the Cortes.
She tutored the daughter of Queen Isabella II. In 1876, she was created Marquesa de Calderón de la Barca in her own right by King Alfonso XII.
Särskiljningsnotis
Please do not combine or confuse her with the 17th-century male dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Some of the name files are corrupted and will combine erroneously.

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The diary of the wife of the first Spanish Ambassador to an indepent Mexico, this book is filled with insights about both countries and a fascinating historical document of the nineteenth century.
 
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Doublemet | 1 annan recension | Jan 15, 2010 |
1840s account of Mexican life by Scottish wife of the first Spanish envoy to Mexico following independence. 54 Letters to her family. Preface by William Prescott, Boston author of History of Ferdinand and Isabella.
 
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kitchengardenbooks | 1 annan recension | Mar 2, 2008 |

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Verk
11
Medlemmar
148
Popularitet
#140,180
Betyg
4.1
Recensioner
2
ISBN
24
Språk
3

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