Works by Mexican writer Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz recovered from auction
by Sam Jones in Madrid from World news | The Guardian on (#633TM)
Two books containing 17th-century works by pioneering feminist poet and nun saved from US auction and returned to Spain
Two precious and well-travelled books containing works by the Mexican nun, writer, composer, poet and proto-feminist Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz have been saved from auction in New York and returned to Spain, where they were printed almost three-and-a-half centuries ago.
Sister Juana, who was born in mid-17th century Mexico to a Spanish father and a Mexican mother of Spanish descent, possessed a thirst for knowledge and a mind that would eventually mark her out as one of the greatest figures of the Golden Age of Spanish literature.
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