Jonette O'Kelley Miller Jonette O'Kelley Miller

A Woman’s Place: the Life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

The seventeenth century scholar, philosopher, poet, playwright and painter Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, born Juana de Asbaje y Ramírez, de Santillana during Mexico’s colonial period, was, in a word: a trailblazer. Her birth date on November 12 in San Miguel Nepantla, Mexico has been listed as either in the year 1648, or 1651.

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