Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz



2 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Translations by Stuart Cooke

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) was born in a Mexican village as Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez. Bookish and precocious, she was taken to the viceroy’s court in Mexico City when she was still young; there she learned Latin and soon impressed scholars with her erudition. In 1669 she entered a Hieronymite convent—primarily, it seems, to avoid marriage and to be free to pursue her studies—and changed her name to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

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