Cecilia Böhl de Faber (1796-1887) enlightened writer

Cecilia Böhl de Faber used a male pseudonym, Fernán Caballero, to be able to publish her novels and shared with other women from the enlightened, bourgeois elite the struggle for coeducation. As a supporter of the educational proposal by the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Free Education Institution) between 1876 and 1938, she supported Emilia Pardo Bazán, also a writer, who proposed in1892 coeducation at all levels to overcome the division of tasks assigned to men and women. At the time, the proposal met with no success.

Photo, Pablo Linés Viñuales