This tight embrace
By: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Elizabeth Rhodes.
Contributors: Rhodes, Elizabeth, 1955-
Series: Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650).; v. 2
Publisher: Marquette University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Milwaukee Wisc
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de, 1566-1614.; Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de -- Correspondence.; Christian poetry, Spanish -- Translations into English.; Catholics -- England -- Correspondence.; Spiritual life -- Catholic Church.
Genres: Correspondence.; Translations into English.
Description: "Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza was a Spanish noblewoman born in 1566 to wealth and privilege. After a remarkable childhood and youth marred by numerous family deaths and abuse, she rejected her exalted social status to embrace the life of a poor holy woman in the urban centers of Madrid and Valladolid.".

"This Tight Embrace includes a complete biographical study of Carvajal, followed by selections from each of the genres of writing she practiced: her spiritual life story, her religious vows, her poetry, the Rule she wrote for her Society of the Sovereign Virgin Mary, and her letters."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-306) and index.