Sor Juana Inis de la Cruz O las Trampas de la Fe

from jorgearanda

A careful and loving portrait of Sor Juana. Beautifully written; particularly interesting in its description of life in the New Spain and Sor Juana's conflict with the religious establishment. The book's only major fault is that it tends to choose myth building over practical explanations, as in ...

from carterchristian1

A well constructed biography with a can't-put-it-down quality about the life of a remarkable Mexican who lived as a lady in waiting the a Spanish official's wife, then became a nun. She accumulated a library of 4,000 volumes (I suspect whe would have like to have Librarything to keep up with them...

from carterchristian1

A well constructed biography with a can't-put-it-down quality about the life of a remarkable Mexican who lived as a lady in waiting the a Spanish official's wife, then became a nun. She accumulated a library of 4,000 volumes (I suspect whe would have like to have Librarything to keep up with them...