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Ana de San Bartolomé (García) was reluctant to go to France, in part because of the opposition of Ana de Jesús, but she eventually accepted the challenge. Shortly afterward, Pierre de Bérulle ordered her to take the black veil and become prioress of a new convent in Pontoise. A conflict developed between her and Ana de Jesús over several issues, particularly the admission of Catholic converts from Protestantism into the order. Around 1610, Ana de San Bartolomé had a serious falling-out with Bérulle, who became abusive toward her. Finally, at the end of 1611, she left France for Mons. During her years in France and Antwerp, Gallicisms began to creep into Ana’s language.

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Bárbara Mujica is a Professor Emerita of Spanish literature at Georgetown University, where she taught early modern Spanish literature with a specialization in the Spanish mystics, women’s writing, and Spanish theater. Her most recent scholarly books are Women Writers of Early Modern Spain: Sophia’s Daughters (Yale University Press, 2004); Teresa de Avila, Lettered Woman (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008); Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia: Essays in Honor of Susan L. Fischer (Bucknell University Press, 2013); A New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater: Play and Playtext (Yale University Press, 2014); and Collateral Damage: Women Write about War (University of Virginia Press 2020). She is founder and editor of Comedia Performance, a journal devoted to early modern Spanish theater. At Georgetown, she was awarded a Presidential Medal, the School of Languages and Linguistics Service Medal, and the Dean’s Medal for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Mujica is also a fiction writer and essayist. Her novel Frida (Overlook Press, 2001) was an international bestseller that appeared in eighteen languages and was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate. Her novel Sister Teresa (Overlook Press, 2007) was adapted for the stage at the Actors’ Studio in Los Angeles; the play premiered in November 2013. Her novel I Am Venus (Overlook 2013) was a winner in the Maryland Writers’ Association National Fiction Competition and is a quarter-finalist in the StageCraft Cinematic Novel Competition (2020). Her other prizes for fiction include the E. L. Doctorow International Fiction Competition, the Pangolin Prize, the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award for short fiction, and three Maryland Writers’ Association awards for short fiction.

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Publication date (Print): September 01 2020

Pages: 237-260

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DOI: 10.5117/9789463723435_ch09

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