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Ana arrived in Antwerp at the beginning of the Twelve Years’ Truce. She was involved in every detail of the Antwerp foundation, from the purchase of the land to the acquisition of construction materials. Unlike her earlier foundations, those in the Low Countries were pluralistic centers that recruited from French-, Flemish-, Spanish-, and English-speaking populations. Around 1606, the English recusant Mary Lovel decided to found an English convent in Antwerp. After complicated negotiations, an English Carmel opened in May 1619, with Anne of the Ascension (Worsley) as its prioress. However, conflicts about confessors soon arose. Fearing a rupture in the order, Ana wrote to Anne repeatedly, trying to convince her to remain under the umbrella of the Discalced Carmelites.

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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: 261-280

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DOI: 10.5117/9789463723435_ch10

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