Title: A Wild Country Out in the Garden
Description: "In Madre Maria's prose, a down-to-earth treatment of daily life both on a provincial hacienda and in a cloistered convent moves into passages rendering deep mystical absorption.

As a charismatic woman living according to Counter Reformation guidelines in the New World, Maria de San Jose, through her writings, illuminates how class, race, gender - even birth order and convent prestige - helped shape the roles people played in society and the ways in which they contributed to community belief and identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Augustinian Recollects, Nuns, Biography, History, Essays, journals, letters & other prose works, Religion, Maria de San Jose,, Biography / Autobiography, Religious, Women, Specific Members Of Religious Congregations And Orders, Mexico, Ethnic Cultures - General, Christianity - Catholicism, Christianity - History - Catholic, madre,, 1656-1719, Marâia de San Josâe,, Monasticism, Christianity - Catholic, 17th century, María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns, biography, Mexico, biography