Excerpt from La Gaviota a Spanish Novel
Gaviota (sea-gull) is the sobriquet which Andalusians give to harsh-tongued, flighty women of unsympathetic mien and manners; and such was applied to the heroine of this tale by a youthful, malicious tormentor - Momo.
Fernan Caballero is, indeed, but a pseudonym: the author of this novel, passing under that name, is understood to be a lady, partly of German descent. Her father was Don Juan Nicholas Bohl de Faber, to whose erudition Spain is indebted for a collection of ancient poetry. Cecelia, the daughter of Bohl de Faber, was born at Morges, in Switzerland, in 1797, and subsequently married to a Spanish gentleman. Indeed, since the death of her first husband, she has successively contracted two other marriages, and is now a widow.
We have it on the authority of the Edinburgh Review, that the novels of this gifted authoress were "published at the expense of the Queen."
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