She was raised mainly by her mother, Teresa Mañé, but also had a self-taught soul and began writing at an early age. In addition to being a writer, she was also a great politician and anarchist leader, during the Second Republic she became the first woman ministress in Spain.

She was born in Madrid and lived his childhood and youth in country houses, where the anarchist family lived with a subsistence economy. Her mother's education from an early age was based mostly on reading, making her read Darwin, French classics and Spanish classics. He also spent a lot of time outdoors, exercising and doing both home and farm work. In addition, also from an early age, her parents took her to demonstrations and meetings where they attended and she was already immersed in this political environment. That is how  she cultivated her progressive and revolutionary character, which she would emphasize later.

In 1914 the whole family moved to Barcelona, ​​and in the later years the family's economy was sustained by the breeding of rabbits, the publishing activity, the work of the mother as a translator and the father's theater scripts. In 1930, Frederica began living with Germinal Esgleas, an anarcho-unionist with whom her father had been imprisoned two years earlier.

Her first work was written in Spanish Horas trágicas (‘Tragic Hours’) when he was only 16 years old and was about the gunmen among the Catalan working class. From then on he began to write regularly for La Revista Blanca (‘The White Magazine’). During the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, in the midst of a conservative society, she published three works clearly based on female emancipation. He also wrote about 30 fictional novels, although they encompassed anarchist ideals about women. In addition, she also became involved in political journalism and participated in the political life of the city of Barcelona. For example he joined the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) and standed out for holding demonstrations, which amazed the audience accustomed to listening to male characters. He later joined the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI), also playing an important role in its meetings. In 1936 she took over the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and with just over half a year as state minister she proposed many social projects, such as a dining room for pregnant women, shelters for children, jobs in certain professions for the disabled people, an abortion law... but in reality none of his projects went beyond mere paper proposals. In 1939 she had to go into exile in France, where she had great difficulties with persecutions by Nazi police and ended up in prison. There, they denied the extradition request of the Spanish Francoist government due to her pregnancy. In 1977 she returned to Spain and continued with her political action. In addition, in 1987 she published her autobiography called Mis primeros cuarenta años (‘My first forty years’). She died in Toulouse in 1994.