Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time.
Thirty other works are also included..
The volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works, including "
First Dream", which showcases her prodigious intellect and range and "
Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz", her epistolary feminist defence of a woman's right to study and to write.
This self-taught intellectual rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age.
She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico", names that continue to resonate.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time
