This book reveals the great women creators of the 18th and 19th centuries left in the shadows.

Las desheredadas deals with the 18th and 19th centuries, a crucial period in the history of the West, the seed of the era we live in today. It is the time of painters such as Élisabeth Vigee Le Brun and Adelade Labille-Guiard; of the enlightened Lady Mary Montagu and the Duchess of Osuna; of scientists such as the Marquise de Chtelet and Ada Lovelace; of betrayed revolutionaries such as Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft; of writers such as Mary Shelley, the Brontës sisters.