TY - GEN T1 - The three secular plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : a critical study T2 - Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; A1 - Schmidhuber de la Mora, Guillermo A2 - Peña Doria, Olga Martha A2 - Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695 LA - English PP - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky YR - 2000 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn900344718 AB - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote poetry, prose, and plays and is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. She was an intellectual prodigy, reportedly mastering Latin in twenty lessons, and at sixteen she entered a convent so that she might continue her learning. One of the most influential early feminists in the New World, she answered a bishop's criticism in a letter that has become a classic defense of the education of women. She collected a private library of 4,000 volumes, but when she was told that her studies were delaying the progress of her spiritual education, she. CN - PQ7296.J6 Z874 2000 SN - 9780813157467 SN - 0813157463 SN - 9780813120881 KW - Juana Inés de la Cruz, : Sister, : 1651-1695 : Dramatic works. KW - Juana Inés de la Cruz, : Sister, : 1651-1695 : Authorship. KW - Juana Inés de la Cruz, : Sister, : 1651-1695 KW - DRAMA : Continental European. KW - DRAMA : Caribbean & Latin American. KW - Authorship KW - Criticism and interpretation ER -