Juana Inés

Juana Inés

Juana Inés was a 17th-century Mexican nun, a feminist poet, and an autodidact in an age where women were not allowed to study. She learned to read and write Latin by the age of 3, could do accounts by 5, wrote her first poem at 8, and at 13 she was teaching Greek and was writing poems in Nahuatl.

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