Following Mabel Moraña’s (2012) approaches to the affective turn, which takes up what was proposed by Spinoza and Foucault, this work traces the bodies of girls as literary characters in works written by women writers from Caldas, based on their violence, fears and deficiencies. The chapter presents some theoretical references on the affective turn in contemporary literary theory, traces the background on the affects in girls that appear in novels and stories in Colombia, with an emphasis on the Great Caldas, and finally contrasts the treatment of the body of girls in works published by women writers from Caldas with almost a century of difference: the stories of Chila Molina-Salazar The Little Sisters of the Poor (1923), Mother’s Love (1923) and If I Were the Breeze (1923), and the novel by Natalia Mejía-Echeverry 11 bombs before the ashes (2017). The analysis identifies from a gender perspective the socioaffective contexts that serve as cultural references to unveil aspects related to the sentimental education of girls in this Colombian region.