Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695)
Author of Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
About the Author
Born Juana de Asbaje in a small town, this Mexican author became a nun in 1669, probably because her illegitimate birth removed her from consideration for marriage to someone worthy of her. A misfit in a restrictive colonial society that mistrusted such intense intellectual curiosity in a woman, show more Asbaje was the finest lyric poet and one of the most interesting dramatists of the Spanish American colonial period. Despite the opposition of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, she carried out scientific experiments and became the confidante of nobility and a correspondent of intellectuals throughout Spanish America. A Woman of Genius (Respuesta a Sor Filotea) is an extraordinary document of the intellectual history of a woman who would not be defeated by her circumstances. Ultimately, she sold her books and devoted herself to caring for the sick and poor; she died of an illness contracted while nursing during an outbreak of the plague. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Statue of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Madrid, Spain. Photo by user Sanbec / Wikimedia Commons.
Works by Juana Inés de la Cruz
A Woman of Genius: The Intellectual Autobiography of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (English and Spanish Edition) (1982) 46 copies
Obras completas, II. Villancicos y letras sacras (Literatura Colonial) (Spanish Edition) (1952) 21 copies
Obras completas, IV. Comedias, sainetes y prosa (Bibliotea Americana) (Spanish Edition) (1957) 18 copies
Ecos de mi pluma: Antología en prosa y verso / Echoes From My Pen: Prose and Verse Anthology (Spanish Edition) (2017) 12 copies
Los empeños de una casa; Amor es más laberinto (Letras Hispánicas) (Spanish Edition) (2010) 8 copies
Neptuno alegorico/ Allegorical Neptune (Letras Hispanicas/ Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition) (2009) 6 copies
Poesía y teatro 3 copies
El Sueno De Amor (Spanish Edition) 3 copies
Laberinto endecasílabo 2 copies
Poèms d'amour et de discrétion 2 copies
Selección (Biblioteca de la literatura y el pensamiento hispánicos ; 32) (Spanish Edition) (1978) 2 copies
Carta de Serafina de Cristo, 1691 (Biblioteca Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) (Spanish Edition) (1996) 2 copies
Poesias Liricas 1 copy
Dos sonetos 1 copy
Obras Completas 1: Lirica Personal, 2: Villancicos y Letras Sacras. Edicion Prologo y Notas de Alfonso Mendez… (1952) 1 copy
Poesías escogidas de sor. Juana Inés de la Cruz (la décima musa mejicana) (Spanish Edition) (2014) 1 copy
Sueños melancólicos 1 copy
Obras Escogidas, #12 1 copy
Páginas escogidas 1 copy
Dolor fiero 1 copy
Sus mejores poesías 1 copy
Lírica personal 1 copy
By Juana Ines de la cruz Obras Completas de Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Spanish Edition) (1900) 1 copy
Testimonio de claustro 1 copy
Poems 1 copy
Associated Works
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 458 copies, 1 review
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contributor — 451 copies
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (1994) — Contributor — 350 copies, 4 reviews
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contributor — 205 copies, 1 review
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contributor — 68 copies, 1 review
The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern (1993) — Contributor — 30 copies, 1 review
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Contributor — 25 copies, 1 review
Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana : de la conquista al siglo XX (1997) — Contributor — 20 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Cruz, Juana Inés de la
- Legal name
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana (or Asuaje)
- Other names
- Sor Juana
- Birthdate
- 1648-11-12
- Date of death
- 1695-04-17
- Burial location
- Mexico
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Mexico
New Spain - Country (for map)
- Mexico
- Birthplace
- San Miguel de Nepantla, Mexico
- Place of death
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Cause of death
- Bubonic plague
- Places of residence
- Amecameca, Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico - Occupations
- nun
poet
writer
scholar - Short biography
- Date of birth is given as both 1648-11-12 and 1651-11-12. Date of death is an educated guess based on facts known of the period. Due to loss of records it is hard to establish her exact dates of birth and death.
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Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings… by sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
A wonderful, brilliant look into a woman’s struggle to pursue her intellectual endeavors. This collection of prose predates many of the most famous works that deal with women’s educations and their position in society.
the last part was interesting 186-216.
I am not interested in religion and how god could help us if it remembered.
I can't get into poetry.
I am not interested in religion and how god could help us if it remembered.
I can't get into poetry.
Lesbian feminists like to fantasize about this lady because she wanted to dress like a boy to get into what was then a men-only university. Then she started her own personal library that ended up bigger than the university at that time, which is why she's now the symbolic muse of my own library. And she's on the front of the Mexican 100 peso note too. She was a plucky and spirited lady that genuinely had some insight into dreams as well but the baroque poetry in this book translated from Spanish isn't really my thing.… (more)
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