A Self-taught Scholar. Born in 1648, Juana Ramírez de Asbaje, later known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz after becoming a nun, was a child prodigy who taught herself to read and write.

Long before Frida there was Juana. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a nun in 17th century Mexico City, then capital of New Spain, was the first great poet in the Americas. She was also a determined ...

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the first female playwright in Mexico Mexican playwright Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's play "House of Desires" is being performed by Southwest Shakespeare April 11 to 14.

In comparison to the idea of having to obey a husband until death, to the woman who became Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, convent life came with perks ­— including a room of one’s own and the ...