The most outstanding modern writer in the Galician language whose work is of both regional and universal significance.
In 1858 she married the historian Manuel Murguía (1833-1923), a champion of the Galician Renaissance.
Although she was the author of a number of novels, she owes her inmortality to her poetry, contained in Cantares gallegos (1863) and Follas novas (1880), both written in her own language and En las orillas del Sar (1884) written in Castilian. Part of her work (the Cantares and some of the poems in Follas novas) expresses with sympathetic power the spirit of the Galician people: their gaiety, simple wisdom and folklore, their resentment of Castilian domination, their love of their homeland and the sorrows of poverty and emigration.
About 1867 Rosalía began to write more personally, describing in verse her own deepest feelings -remorse, repressed desire, the anguish of living, the desolation of spiritual loneliness, fear of death, the trasience of affection, the feeling that everythings is in vain.
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