Considering the presence and influence of educated women of letters in Spain and New Spain, this study looks at the life and work of early modern women who advo

Containing essays from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies, this volume offers entirely new research on women's acquisition and pract

Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it.

This volume presents writings pertaining to women's rich and diverse participation--despite male cultural domination--in the realms of both reading and writing.

In Spain, the two hundred years that elapsed between the beginning of the early modern period and the final years of the Habsburg Empire saw a profusion of work