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Juana Inés de la Cruz

Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet (1648–1695)

"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" redirects here. For the telenovela, see Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (TV series). For the BRT station, see Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexibús).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Asbaje and the second or maternal family name is Ramírez de Santillana.

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Native name

Juana de Asuaje y Ramírez de Santillana

BornJuana Ramírez de Asbaje
12 November 1651
San Miguel Nepantla,
New Spain
(near modern Tepetlixpa, Mexico)
Died17 April 1695(1695-04-17) (aged 43)
Mexico City, New Spain
Resting placeConvent of San Jerónimo, Mexico City
Pen nameJuana Inés de la Cruz
OccupationNun, poet, writer, musician composer
LanguageSpanish, Nahuatl, Latin
EducationSelf taught until the age of twenty-one. (1669)
Period17th century Nun
Literary movementBaroque, Culteranismo
Years active~1660 to ~1693
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Born on November 12, 1651 (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. By 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 given permission by her family to do so. She continued to study privately, and, at sixteen, was p

Biography

1648 - 1695

"I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.”

 - Sor Juana Ines de 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 16. As a nun she was free to study the more than 4000 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 America 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 brilliant verse, and the threat to traditional authority it posed, that proved he

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