A life of the seventeenth-century poet, intellectual, and feminist who became a nun and eventually gave up secular learning, places her in her times and in Spanish intellectual tradition, and examines the contradictions in her personality.
- | Author: Octavio Paz
- | Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- | Publication Date: January 02, 1990
- | Number of Pages: 564 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0674821068
- | ISBN-13: 9780674821064