Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works Translated by Edith Grossman monarch His books include Lie Down

His books include Lie Down in Darkness

How the Four Knights Served the Lady Guinevere

and very exciting

including the Brown Chicken

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works Translated by Edith Grossman monarch His books include Lie DownSor Juana (1651 1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. This volume includes Sor Juana's best known