Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz

Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz was an exceptional seventeenth-century nun who delimitate precedents for feminism long before the term or concept existed. Her Respuesta is a maverick work outlining the logical sense of womens education more than 200 years before Woolfs A Room of aces Own. Her poetry, meanwhile, states in bold language the potency of the feminine in both love and religion.Juana Ins Ramirez was born out of spousal relationship to Isabel Ramirez and Manuel de Asbaje in a small village in Mexico, New Spain. Manuel briefly abandoned the family, so mother and child spent a striking deal of time with Juanas grandfather, Pedro Ramirez. It was in Pedros book-filled house that Juana intimate to read. (Girls of her time were rarely, if ever, formally educated.) The door to learning then burst unaffixed the young prodigy would embark upon a life shaped and shaken by intellectual inquiry. She quickly gained renown in society and became a lady-in-waiting in the motor hotel of the Spanish viceroy. Yet she soon left the court for the nunnery practically speaking, this was the best way for an illegitimately born woman to watertight the time and resources for scholarship.But Sor Juana did not shut herself away in an spartan cell. She started out as a novice in the Carmelite order, solely the orders predilection for little sleep and self-flagellation repelled her after a few months. ultimately she found a sect that was more her speed as a lady of letters and a former courtier the order of San Jernimo gave her an entire retinue of her own, complete with bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, library, and servant. Her library which held Mexicos largest book collection developed into a meeting-place for the intellectual elite. Those who frequented the salon included future viceroy Marquis de La Laguna and the Countess de Pareda, known to her intimates as Maria Luisa.