A Wild Country Out in the Garden

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Madre Maria de San Jose (1656 - 1719) -- mystic, chronicler, andco-founder of an Augustinian convent -- inscribed her life story within the model ofspiritual autobiography set by St. Augustine and Teresa of Avila, but at the sametime included her individual story as a seventeenth-century woman of the landowningclasses in New Spain. The resulting manuscript records in intimate detail her familylife, convent surroundings, and social milieu, it introduces us to a combative andengaging person and gives us a rare and vivid glimpse of a complexsociety.

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