Juana Ines De La Cruz Analysis

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Juana Ines de la Cruz was a self-educated Mexican nun and writer who lived during the second half of the seventeenth century. Born to a lower-class family, Juana’s mother had her sent to Mexico City as a child with the hopes that the city would provide greater opportunities for her clever and talented daughter. Juana quickly gained a position serving the family of the Mexican viceroy at the time. The viceroy, recognizing Juana’s giftedness, provided the girl with the means to educate herself. As a teenager, in order to continue her life of study, Juana joined a convent where she assembled an impressive library and spent years writing everything from plays to poetry. The time during which Sor Juana lived provided few paths of education for

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