She was born in Barcelona in 1872 and died in 1949 after a long life as a Catalan educator and writer. She was also a great promoter of Catalan popular women's education and a patron and creator of the Popular Women's Library (1909). She had a solid education in different fields of arts and humanities. At the age of 21, she married Narcís Verdaguer, cousin of Jacint. Together with him she published more than one hundred fables, popular tales and legends in the Catalan weekly publication La Veu de Catalunya (‘Catalonia’s voice’).

In 1909 the parish priest of Santa Anna offered her to take care of the parish's charitable library. He donated her money and books to set up the first working women library, where all women were free to enter. Francesca was a supporter of conservative feminism (defending the education and autonomy of women while maintaining the importance of being a wife and mother) and runned the library for all women of any social class. The small library was very successful and became a great cultural institution where any woman could take a long range of free classes and activities similar to those offered at universities (which women did not have access to). For this reason it was renamed the Women's Institute of Culture and Library. When her husband died, Francesca decided to completely devote herself to her project, which even had its own employment agency.

She later became involved in politics and was in favor of women's right to vote. During the Civil War he fled to Switzerland, and in 1941 returned to Barcelona, ​​where she died a few years later.

Francesca was voted in a participatory process in March 2010 in Palafrugell of women who deserve a street, for her work in favor of women and her participation in culture, education and politics.