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Religious wars hindered the initial efforts of Jean de Brétigny to establish a Discalced Carmelite convent in France. However, Pierre Bérulle, future confessor to the King and member of the reformist spiritual circle known as Paris dévot, favored the project. In October 1604, Ana Jesús founded and became prioress of the first Discalced Carmelite convent in Paris. When Bérulle decided to establish a second convent in Pontoise, he chose Ana de San Bartolomé to head it. In order to comply, Ana, a white-veiled nun (one who did menial labor), would have to take the black veil. Despite the opposition of Ana de Jesús, Ana de San Bartolomé acceded to Bérulle’s demands and founded in Pontoise.

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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: 137-172

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DOI: 10.5117/9789463723435_ch06

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