Title: This tight embrace
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.
Subjects: Correspondence, Catholics, Spiritual life, Spanish Christian poetry, Translations into English, Catholic Church, Catholics, england, Spiritual life, catholic church, Early works to 1800
Places: England
People: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1566-1614)