Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction
The Other Voice 1
Luisa de Carvajal's Life Writings 6
The World of the Spanish Nobility 13
Early Childhood Reminiscences 17
Adolescence and Penitential Discipline 25
Spiritual Poetry 36
The Sacred and the Profane in Carvajal's Spiritual Poetry 41
Correspondence 48
Desire for Martyrdom in England 54
Missionary Life in London 66
A Roman Priest in Women's Clothing 71
The Traffic in Relics 78
Circulating Her Life Story 91
Luisa de Carvajal's Afterlife 98
Autobiography 111
Selected Spiritual Poems 153
Selected Correspondence 201
Bibliography 351
Index 365
Anne J. Cruz is professor of Spanish and Cooper Fellow at
the University of Miami. Her publications range from studies on
Spanish Petrarchism, Cervantes, and the comedia to women's writings
and the picaresque novel. She is a member of the Bibliografia de
Escritoras Espanolas (Bieses) Research Team, coeditor of
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and editor
of the Ashgate series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary
Studies. She has recently been named corresponding member of
Spain's Royal Academy of History.
"Luisa de Carvajal's writings offer compelling accounts of the
persecution of English recusants and insights into the political
and diplomatic background to the pax hispanica. Her
religious poetry and autobiographical writings, at once disturbing
and powerful, vividly document a particular strand of women's
penitential piety. Without pathologizing Carvajal, Anne Cruz's
masterful introduction provides the essential literary and
historical context for approaching this controversial would-be
martyr."
* Alison Weber, University of Virginia *
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