Her mother was related to the Argentine patriot Francisco Narciso de Laprida and to Col. Isidoro Suarez, who fought in the war of independence. Jorge Luis Borges's paternal grandfather was Col. Francisco Borges, who married an Englishwoman and died in 1874 fighting in the Argentine civil wars. In 1901 the Borges family moved to the Palermo area, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Even though Borges later said, "Lo cierto es que me crie en un jardin, detras de una verja con lanzas y en una biblioteca de ilimitados libros ingleses" (The truth is that I grew up in a garden, behind a railroad spar and in an unlimited library of English books)—in the foreword to his Evaristo Carriego (1930; translated, 1983)- Palermo also provided him with a rich source of popular character types that he used in his writing. Borges's father was a cultured man and an amateur writer; he boasted an extensive library of English works, but also with many books in Spanish and French.
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