González de Fanning, Teresa (1836–1918)

Teresa González, one of the outstanding Peruvian writers of the late nineteenth century, was born on a family ranch in rural Peru, but educated in Lima. At seventeen she married a naval officer, Juan Fanning, who was killed in the War of the Pacific in 1881. Their two children died in infancy. A poet, essayist, fiction writer and acclaimed member of the prestigious El Ateneo (Atheneum) in Lima and a close friend of the major women writers of the time, such as Juana Manuela Gorriti, Clorinda Matto de Turner, and Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, González published extensively in magazines and newspapers, first under pseudonyms (Maria de la Luz, Clara del Risco, Clara), and then under her own name. Her prizewinning novel Regina (1886) was followed by many others, in the collection Lucecitas (1893), Indómita (Untamed, 1904), and Roque Moreno (1904). Her speeches and essays about women's education were widely published, and some were collected in various editions of Educación femenina (1898, 1905). In 1881 she founded a girls' high school in Lima, and many other schools in Peru now bear her name.

See alsoGorriti, Juana Manuela; Matto de Turner, Clorinda; Nieves y Bustamante, María; War of the Pacific.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

González de Fanning, Teresa. Indómita. Lima, Tipografía "El Lucero," 1904. Available from http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/∼tward/mujeres/Gonzalez/INDEX.HTM.

González de Fanning, Teresa. Roque Moreno. Lima: Tipografía "El Lucero," 1904. Available from http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/∼tward/mujeres/Gonzalez/INDEX.HTM.

González de Fanning, Teresa. Educación femenina: Colección de artículos pedagógicos, morales y sociológicos. Lima, Tipografía "El Lucero," 1905.

González de Fanning, Teresa. "Trabajo para la mugger/Work for Women." In Madres del verbo/Women of the Word, edited by Nina M. Scott. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

González de Fanning, Teresa. "Concerning the Education of Women." In Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History, edited by Gertrude M. Yeager. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1994.

                                          Mary G. Berg