CABALLERO, Pertain,
lya'ro, pseudonym of CECILIA BoHL VON FABER,
Spanish novelist, daughter of a German who
settled in Spain and married a Spanish lady: b.
Morges, near Lausanne, Switzerland, 25 Dec.
1796; d. Seville, 7 April 1877. Brought up in
Germany, she went to Cadiz with her father in
1813. She was a polyglot writer, publishing
works in Spanish, German and French. Her first
novel, (La Gaviota,) appeared in 1849, and was
followed by (Elia,> etc., as well as by many shorter
stories. In 1859 she published a collection of
folk-tales under the title, 1867);
subject of one of the (Six Life Studies> (1880)
of M. B. Edwards. Her
were published in 18 volumes (Madrid 1855-67),
and have since been reprinted in the
cion de escritores castellanos.' Consult de
Latour, A., (Etudes litteraires sur l'Espagne
contemporaine> (Paris 1864); and (Espagne,
traditions, mceurs et litterature (Paris 1869);
De Gabriel y Ruiz de Apodaca, F., (Madrid 1893) ; Morel-Fatio, A.,
Caballero d'apres sa correspondence
avec Antoine de Latour' (in the Bulletin
panique, Vol. III, Bordeaux 1901), reproduced
in his
stir L'Espagne, 3e serie) (Paris
1904) ; Pitollet, (Les premiers essais de
man Caballero> (Paris 1908); Coloma,
dos de Fernan Caballero' (Bilbao 1910). See