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Hello. In 1648 she was born a quote daughter of the church

meaning that her parents were not married. Her father was a Spanish

captain her mother an illiterate woman. They lived in Mexico or New Spain as it was then called. At age

three she followed her older sister to school and begged the teacher to include her

in the lessons and by age 17 she was one of the leading intellectuals in the new world.

Her passion for learning took her from her grandfather's library into the convent where she

could study without being subjected to the restrictions that came

with being a married woman in her day. Her name was Soruana Innese de la Cruz, known in her time as the 10th Muse, for the quality of her poetry and other

writings, and also known as the Mexican Phoenix.

As her powerful body of work rose from the ashes of religious condemnation and dispute.

Today she is widely viewed as one of the earliest feminist advocates, one of Mexico's first and greatest intellectual giants and a poet whose talent is rarely equaled.

Wanna in Ace Delacruz, today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson Wilson it's our fourth and final week in our

second Thursday theme month the theme this month has been forgotten women of

literature and we reached back in time to Anadwana,

Sayan, or Wenji, and Emilia Bessano Lagner.

It has been a good month, a good theme month, and today is the fourth.

Soir Wana in Ace Delacruz.

Soir means sister because she was a nun and yet she was not a conventional nun,

not what we might consider to be a conventional nun. She was a polymathic scholar, an artist, a poet, an

uncontainable force. She wrote comedies for the stage and secular poetry, including love poetry, that are not

suffused with religion. She also earned the condemnation of the church. She stood up for women both in the subject matter of her works and

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