My research Project, under the supervision of Prof. Gilberta Golinelli and Prof. Edoardo Balleta from the University of Bologna, and Prof. Milena Rodríguez from the University of Bologna, focuses on the study of English and Hispano-American women writers of the nineteenth century. The goal of my research is to analyse the novels written by Mary Leman Grimstone (English) and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Cuban-Spanish), to understand how these women writers used literature as space of empowerment and resistance through which they could narrate women’s experiences of oppression and demand the recognition of women’s rights and dignity.