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Isabel Ramirez and Manuel de Asbaje had a daughter named Juana Ines de la Cruz born November 12, 1651 in San Miguel Nepantlan, Tepetlixpa, Mexico.
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Juana Inez de la Cruz was sent to live with her grandfather Pedro Ramirez who helped raised her and provided many of the book she read as a child. At the age of three she knew how to read and write.
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Sadly her grandfather past away when she was eight years old. At age eight she also wrote her first poem.
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Juana Inez de la Cruz had a passion for learning, and with this love she was able to convince her mother to let her move to Mexico City where she would have a better opportunity for a brighter future. Thankfully her mother agreed and Inez was able to go to Mexico City. Once she arrived to Mexico City she began to learn Latin.
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At such incredible age Juana Inez was only ten years old when she master Greek logic.
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Juana Inez de la Cruz was named the lady-in-waiting of the Viceregal court with the help of Antonio Sebastian de Toledo Marquis de Mancera and Leonor Carreto who invited her to their court.
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Sor Juana had no attention to leave her studies, that is why she decided " to have no fixed occupation which might curtail my freedom to study" (Sor Juana).
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Juana Inez de la Cruz was not meant for marriage, all she wanted to do is further her education. That is why she decided to enter the Discalced Carmelitas of st.Joseph where she staid for a few months.
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After a few months being in the Discalced Carmelites of St.Joseph Juana Inez at the age of twenty-one made the decision to leave that convent and transfer to Order of St. Jerome convent.
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Antonio Sebastian and his wife protected Juana Inez from the criticisms that surrounded her and her work. Unfortunately they moved to Spain leaving her alone. This opened the doors for does religious critiques to attack her work.
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There was people who did not support Juana Inez due to their disapproval of the type of work she did when it came to women rights. That is why a bishop from Puebla publish a critique that Juana Inez wrote about a 40 year old sermon which she was told to focus on her religion studies instead of secular studies.
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Juana Inez wrote a autobiographical essay that was named " Respuesta a Sor Filotea" in which she tells her stories when she was small and all the things she was able to accomplish at a young age and the things she had to over come.
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Juana Inez was a a gifted women with the power to create poems that express her feeling and what was going on during her time. During this year her most famous poem "Primer Sueno" was published.
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Juana Inez was pressure to leave her work in the pass due to the negative flashback it was bringing. Even tough it was something important that had to be done they did not care. All of her work was sold. Juana Inez went into a penance in which she left her writing and studies in the pass.
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Juana Inez de la Cruz dies because of the plague that hits the convent. After she helped her sister who where fighting the plague she caught it and dies.
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A sculpture of Sor Juana Inez was placed in Oeste Park located in Madrid. The sculpture was built by Enrique Fernandez.
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Guillermo Schmidhuber found a play that he believed was written by sor Juana Inez. The played was named "The Second Celestina" and is one of the earliest comedia written by her.
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Octavio Paz produced a movie that was inspired through the work of Juana Inez. The movie was titled "I The Worst of All".
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Many Mexicans see her as a role model who they inspired them in a daily basis. In the year 1992 she was feature in the 200 pesos in Mexico City in is still found in the Mexican money.
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Juana Inez de la Cruz has being and still is being recognized for her work. She is an icon in Mexico city that is why they open a museum to honor her legacy. The Museo Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz was open in 1999 and is still open to the public.
