Autodidactismo sor juana biography
Ella misma así lo expresó en la Respuesta a sor Filotea de la Cruz cuando se quejaba de su autodidactismo..
The first great poet of Latin America was female, a nun, and a champion of the rights of women.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695), a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, is a leading literary figure in the Spanish Golden Age (el Siglo de Oro Español) which spanned the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries.
She was born near Mexico City in what was then called New Spain.
With no opportunity for formal education, she nonetheless learned Greek and Latin, science, logic, and literature, and began writing poetry at an early age.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, self-taught scholar and poet of New Spain.
When she was 16, she was sent to Mexico City. There she was befriended by the Viceroy's wife, began to develop a reputation as a thinker and writer, and became a popular figure in the vice-royal court. At 19, she joined the convent, where she was able to pursue the life of the mind in a socially acceptable setting.
Her feminist views were, of course, radical at the time, and she defended her beliefs in a famous 1691 letter, arguing that wo