This critical essay aims at investigating gender marks present in two important literary pieces:
Direito das Mulheres e Injustiça dos Homens [The Rights of Women and the Injustices of
Men] (1839), by Nísia Floresta e O Quinze [The fifteen] (1930), by Rachel de Queiroz,
belonging, respectively, to two literary movements in Brazil: the Brazilian Romanticism of the
19th century and Modernism in the 20th. To support our work, we have used two theories in order
to think about our proposed intent: a comparatist approach and feminist criticism in a gender
perspective. We justify this work by the necessity of thinking about the feminist movement in
Brazil from all the perspectives that could give credibility to it, therefore, we traced a historical
line from the literary schools between Romanticism and Modernism, comparing two literary
works. Our main objectives were to study women writing in Romanticism and Modernism in
Brazil; to point out the main events that promulgated women writing in Brazilian literature; to
trace a comparative reading of the works mentioned above. We have consulted, for this research,
Sandra Nitrini’s work on Comparative Literature. On Nísia Floresta, Constancia Lima Duarte
(2010) and Paulo Margutti (2019), and, on Rachel de Queiroz, Angela Harumi Tamaru (2004),
Edmilson Caminha (2010), Miriane da Costa Peregrino and Victor Hugo Adler Pereira (2012).
Our results are shown from a feminist perspective, aiming at amplifying the visibility of the topic
and of women’s literature, as it conquered spaces from the 19th to the 20th centuries
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