Biography sor juana ines de la cruz
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Meet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The Mexican Poet Who Gave Up Her Freedom to Be a Writer
Outside of Mexico, the name Juana Inés de la Cruz may not ring any bells. But Sor Juana is arguably one of Mexico’s most famous writers, and she is a literary ancestor whose commitment to her craft stands as a reminder of what’s possible. A precocious child, born with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, Juana forsake the comforts and freedom of a secular life, so she could dedicate herself to writing and learning. Now, that’s dedication. But was her sacrifice worth it?
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Juana Inés Loved Learning
Juana Inés de la Cruz was born November 12, (or it might have been ) in San Miguel Nepantla. Reports differ about her actual birth year because historical records about women were never that prized. San Miguel Nepantla
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Born on November 12, (though there is some dispute about the year), in San Miguel Neplantla, Mexico, Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez was the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish father and Creole mother. Her maternal grandfather owned property in Amecameca and Juana spent her early years living with her mother on his estate, Panoaya.
Juana was a voracious reader in her early childhood, hiding in the hacienda chapel to read her grandfather’s books from the adjoining library. She composed her first poem when she was eight years old. bygd adolescence, she had comprehensively studied Greek logic, and was teaching Latin to young children at age thirteen. She also learned Nahuatl, an Aztec language spoken in Central Mexico, and wrote some short poems in that language.
At age eight, after her grandfather’s death, Juana was sent to live in Mexico City with her maternal aunt. She longed to disguise herself as a male so that she could go to university but was not gi
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Biography
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"I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.”
- Sor Juana Ines dem la Cruz
Early feminist Sor Juana was a 17th century poet, nun and scholar. With a remarkable aptitude for everything from Latin to geometry, she took her novitiate at the age of As a nun she was free to study the more than books she collected in her cell – one of the largest private libraries in the New World. Her poetry and plays were widely read and brought her renown in Europe and Spanish amerika for celebrating the “magicas infusions (magical infusions)” of Native American cultures – all of which earned her a reputation as one of the greatest lyric poets of the Age. In her work as in her life, she acknowledged being “en dos partes dividida (divided in two parts),” torn between passion and reason, sensuality and religious devotion. Contemporaries gossiped about her liaisons with other nuns (and the wife of the viceroy of the Court of Mexico City), but it was her audaciously