A Wild Country Out in the Garden

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"In Madre Maria's prose, a down-to-earth treatment of daily life both on a provincial hacienda and in a cloistered convent moves into passages rendering deep mystical absorption. As a charismatic woman living according to Counter Reformation guidelines in the New World, Maria de San Jose, through her writings, illuminates how class, race, gender - even birth order and convent prestige - helped shape the roles people played in society and the ways in which they contributed to community belief and identity."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Augustinian Recollects,  Nuns,  Biography,  History,  Essays, journals, letters & other prose works,  Religion,  Maria de San Jose,,  Biography / Autobiography,  Religious,  Women,  Specific Members Of Religious Congregations And Orders,  Mexico,  Ethnic Cultures - General,  Christianity - Catholicism,  Christianity - History - Catholic,  madre,,  1656-1719,  Marâia de San Josâe,,  Monasticism,  Christianity - Catholic,  17th century,  María de San José, madre, 1656-1719,  Nuns, biography,  Mexico, biography