While a teenager this writer was tested by forty professors in all areas of knowledge, and overwhelmed them at every point, gaining a position with the viceroy.
While a teenager this writer was tested by forty professors in all areas of knowledge, and overwhelmed them at every point, gaining a position with the viceroy. Author of the poetry collections "Flood From the Muses' Springs" and "Fame and Posthumous Works of the Mexican Phoenix and Tenth Muse", as a nun this writer became a symbol of intellectual freedom with the "Reply to Sister Philotea", while her best-known poem is Foolish Men Who Accuse. Championed in an Octovia Paz study which discussed "the traps of faith", FTP, who was this 17th century Mexican poet, frequently described as "the first American feminist".
While a teenager this writer was tested by forty professors in all areas of knowledge, and overwhelmed them at every point, gaining a position with the viceroy.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (or Juana Ramirez de Asbaje)