Lazos de Tinta / Ink Ties

"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 Gâomez 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."--amazon.com.