Obras selectas de la celebre monja de Mejico, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz precedid

What it is about

Selected works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695), in Spanish.

Context and history

A Hieronymite nun in Mexico, the finest Spanish-language poet of the baroque and the first to defend women's right to study in writing. The Reply to Sor Filotea is the piece: she wrote it when a bishop urged her to give up letters. She died nursing her sisters in an epidemic.

Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.