Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela is a historian and literary critic specializing in Latin American culture. She teaches at King's College, University of London.

Preface


Acknowledgments


The Convent


San José in


From Saints Lives to Indian


Afterword


Notes

"This is a fascinating, well-written, and suggestive account of the intersections of gender and genre in writing by and about religious women in colonial Mexico... Sampson's overview of these women's narratives provides a wealth of information about the personal lives and thoughts of a doubly silenced group: cloistered religious women." Catherine Jaffe, Associate Professor of Spanish, Southwest Texas State University

This is a fascinating, well-written, and suggestive account of the intersections of gender and genre in writing by and about religious women in colonial Mexico.... Sampson's overview of these women's narratives provides a wealth of information about the personal lives and thoughts of a doubly silenced group: cloistered religious women.