Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana was born in colonial Mexico, a closed society dominated by the Catholic church and by men. There was little room for an intelligent, educated woman. Reading by the age of three, as a child she pestered her mother, pleading to be dressed as a boy and sent to Mexico City to study at the university. Sor Juana was, however, obliged to educate herself by reading in her grandfather’s library.
Sent to Mexico City to live with relatives at age eight, Sor Juana was invited into the court of the viceroy as an...
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