Note C — Front matter

Doña Cecilia Böhl de Faber de Arrom (Fernán Caballero) was born in Switzerland in 1796, daughter of a merchant of Hamburg, Johann Nikolaus Böhl von Faber, and of a Spanish lady of Cádiz of noble family. Fernán Caballero knew both the Spanish and the German literatures. She outlived three husbands: Don Antonio Planells y Bardají (m. 1816), Don Francisco Ruiz de Arco, Marqués de Arco-Hermoso (m. 1822), and Don Antonio Arrom de Ayala (m. 1837, d. 1858). Died in 1877. Works: La gaviota (1848), called in the English version The Lost Beauty, Lágrimas (1858), La familia de Alvareda (1856), Una en otra (1861), Clemencia (1862), Cuadros de costumbres (1862), et al.