![]() ![]() ![]() Upon her grandfather’s death in 1656 Juana’s mother sent her to live in Mexico City with her aunt, and in 1664 she became a lady-in-waiting to and protégée of the Viceroy’s wife, doña Leonor María Carreto, the Marquise de Mancera. ![]() The out-of-wedlock daughter of Isabel Ramirez de Santillana and Pedro Manuel de Asbaje y Vargas Machuca, the young Juana Inés was raised at the hacienda of her maternal grandfather Pedro Ramirez de Santillana, where she quickly demonstrated prodigious talents and exceptional intellectual ability. Juana Ramírez de Asbaje was born on the hacienda of San Miguel Nepantla, near Mexico City, the capital of New Spain, probably in 1648. A letter written by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the Convent of San Jerónimo in Mexico City dated Ma published posthumously in Spanish (as “Respuesta a sor Filotea de la Cruz”) in 1700, in English in 1981.Ī defense of women’s right to study secular and religious texts, the “Reply to Sor Philothea” offers a unique look into the life and views of the most important writer of New Spain.Įvents in History at the Time of the Letter ![]()
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