Manuela ha crecido en la pobreza. Hija de una lavandera y de un indeseable, ha sufrido las penurias de una ciudad donde el abismo entre las clases sociales es insalvable. Sin embargo, gracias a una vecina, Manuela tiene algo que la mayora no posee: sabe leer. Cuando su madre muere y ella huye de un padre que quiere abusar de su poder y utilizarla, su camino se cruza con el de una joven escritora, Gertrudis Gmez de Avellaneda. Criada en una familia con medios, rebelde y sabindose siempre distinta a las jvenes de su clase que nicamente aspiran a casarse y situarse en sociedad, Gertrudis no solo piensa en leer y escribir, sino que tiene la osada de querer publicar. Lograr contactar con otras que, como ella, se saben diferentes y estn dispuestas a hacer or sus voces. As nacer la Hermandad Lrica, un grupo de mujeres intelectuales unidas por la pasin por el saber y los libros y por la necesidad de reivindicar sus obras frente a aquellos escritores cuyos nombres s aparecen en los libros de historia. La vida de Manuela y la de Gertrudis quedarn entrelazadas para siempre a caballo entre un Madrid fro y cerrado a los cambios y las otras ciudades donde buscarn esa libertad que ansan contra viento y marea. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A revealing portrait of Madrid's first association of literary women in the 19th century. Manuela has grown up in poverty. Daughter of a laundress and an unpleasant man, she has suffered the hardships of a city where the abyss between social classes is insurmountable. However, thanks to a woman--a neighbor of hers--Manuela has something that most do not have: she knows how to read. When her mother dies and she runs away from her father, who wants to profit from her literary skill, Manuela's path crosses with the young writer: Gertrudis Gmez de Avellaneda. Raised in a family with means, rebellious, and knowing that she is different from the girls of her class--who only aspire to marry and be in society--Gertrudis not only thinks about reading and writing, but she also has the audacity of wanting to publish her work. Therefore, she will be able to contact others who, like her, know they are different and are willing to make their voices heard. This is how the Lyrical Sisterhood will be born, a group of intellectual women united by a passion for knowledge and books, and by the need to vindicate their works against those male writers, whose names do appear in history books. The life of both Manuela and Gertrudis will remain intertwined forever between the cold Madrid that refuses to change and the other cities, where they will pursue the freedom they crave against all odds.
Manuela ha crecido en la pobreza. Hija de una lavandera y de un indeseable, ha sufrido las penurias de una ciudad donde el abismo entre las clases sociales es insalvable. Sin embargo, gracias a una vecina, Manuela tiene algo que la mayora no posee: sabe leer. Cuando su madre muere y ella huye de un padre que quiere abusar de su poder y utilizarla, su camino se cruza con el de una joven escritora, Gertrudis Gmez de Avellaneda. Criada en una familia con medios, rebelde y sabindose siempre distinta a las jvenes de su clase que nicamente aspiran a casarse y situarse en sociedad, Gertrudis no solo piensa en leer y escribir, sino que tiene la osada de querer publicar. Lograr contactar con otras que, como ella, se saben diferentes y estn dispuestas a hacer or sus voces. As nacer la Hermandad Lrica, un grupo de mujeres intelectuales unidas por la pasin por el saber y los libros y por la necesidad de reivindicar sus obras frente a aquellos escritores cuyos nombres s aparecen en los libros de historia. La vida de Manuela y la de Gertrudis quedarn entrelazadas para siempre a caballo entre un Madrid fro y cerrado a los cambios y las otras ciudades donde buscarn esa libertad que ansan contra viento y marea. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A revealing portrait of Madrid's first association of literary women in the 19th century. Manuela has grown up in poverty. Daughter of a laundress and an unpleasant man, she has suffered the hardships of a city where the abyss between social classes is insurmountable. However, thanks to a woman--a neighbor of hers--Manuela has something that most do not have: she knows how to read. When her mother dies and she runs away from her father, who wants to profit from her literary skill, Manuela's path crosses with the young writer: Gertrudis Gmez de Avellaneda. Raised in a family with means, rebellious, and knowing that she is different from the girls of her class--who only aspire to marry and be in society--Gertrudis not only thinks about reading and writing, but she also has the audacity of wanting to publish her work. Therefore, she will be able to contact others who, like her, know they are different and are willing to make their voices heard. This is how the Lyrical Sisterhood will be born, a group of intellectual women united by a passion for knowledge and books, and by the need to vindicate their works against those male writers, whose names do appear in history books. The life of both Manuela and Gertrudis will remain intertwined forever between the cold Madrid that refuses to change and the other cities, where they will pursue the freedom they crave against all odds.
Hardcover
$22.95