Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

A Hieronymite nun of Mexico City whose verse was printed in Madrid in 1689, enlarged by her own hand in Barcelona in 1693, and completed in Lisbon in 1701 with the letter in which she defends a woman's right to study. Her reply to a bishop argues from a life without masters, from a prelate who forbade her books, and from what she learned watching eggs fry and sugar thicken in a convent kitchen.