Fanny calderon de la barca biography definition

Frances "Fanny" Erskine Inglis, later the Marquesa of Calderón de la Barca and best known as Fanny Calderón de la Barca, (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1804 – Madrid, Spain, 1882), was a 19th-century travel writer best known for her 1843 memoir, Life in Mexico, which is regarded by historians as one of the most influential Latin American travel narratives of the 19th century.^[1][2]

The Inglis family immigrated to the United States in 1835.

Fanny married a Spanish diplomat, Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano, in 1838. In 1839 she accompanied him on his posting to Mexico. In 1843, the couple returned to the U.S. and Calderón de la Barca published Life in Mexico. In 1852, the couple moved