In his biography of his father, Borges says, “My father, Jorge Guillermo Borges, was a lawyer, an anarchist philosopher, and, at the same time, a psychology teacher at the Modern Languages ​​Teachers’ Institute, where he gave his lessons in English, based on William James’s A Short History of Psychology.” He added, “My father’s command of English was due to the fact that his mother, Fanny Haslam, was born in Staffordshire to a liberal family from Northumberland. Unusual circumstances brought her to South America. Fanny’s eldest sister married an Italian-Jewish engineer named Jorge Suárez, who introduced the first horse-drawn trams to Argentina. He and his wife settled in this country, and Fanny brought