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Women Writers of Early Modern Spain: Sophia's Daughters
Women Writers of Early Modern Spain Sophia's Daughters Author:Barbara Mujica This fascinating collection is the first to gather together a wide variety of works by Spanish women writers of the Golden Age. In the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, the cloister was a refuge for women with intellectual aspirations. A few of these women produced biographies of founding sisters, histories of their orders, and eve... more »n poetry and theater. Most of these writings were never published, and only now are researchers beginning to unearth and transcribe them. B?rbara Mujica provides an ample introduction to the volume in English, placing early modern Spanish women's writing within the broader context of Europe of the time. The remaining text is in Spanish, and for each of the selections Mujica offers an introduction with biographical and critical information.« less