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A Mexican poet (1651-95). Retiring from the vice-regal court at the age of 17, she became a nun of the Hieronymite order, and devoted herself to poetry, music, and mathematics, leading at the same time a life of great austerity. Her writings consist of songs, dramas (all these except two on religious themes), prologues, and dramatic sacred allegories. Her contemporaries styled her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Mexican Phoenix".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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