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Juana Inés de la Cruz

1648 - 1695

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Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1648 – 17 April 1695), was a colonial Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, as well as a Hieronymite nun, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse" and "The Phoenix of America" by her contemporary critics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juana Inés de la Cruz has received more than 1,950,544 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Juana Inés de la Cruz is the 621st most popular writer (down from 580th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 16th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Mexican Writer.

Juana Inés de la Cruz was a Mexican nun, scholar, poet, and philosopher. She is most famous for her writing and intellect.

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  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Juana Inés de la Cruz ranks 621 out of 5,755. Before her are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Maurice Blanchot, Sin Saimdang, John Bunyan, and Daphne du Maurier. After her are Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Georg Büchner, Robert Ludlum, Ivan Franko, and John Irving.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1648, Juana Inés de la Cruz ranks 2. Before her is Peter II of Portugal. After her are Jeanne Guyon, Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans, Anne Henriette of Bavaria, Arabella Churchill, Johann Michael Bach, Arp Schnitger, Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels, Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and René de Froulay de Tessé. Among people deceased in 1695, Juana Inés de la Cruz ranks 5. Before her are Christiaan Huygens, Jean de La Fontaine, Ahmed II, and Henry Purcell. After her are Johann Ambrosius Bach, Zumbi, Pierre Mignard, Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Thomas Tew, and Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Juana Inés de la Cruz ranks 20 out of 585. Before her are Porfirio Díaz (1830), Salma Hayek (1966), Agustín de Iturbide (1783), Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957), Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794), and Benito Juárez (1806). After her are Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953), Moctezuma I (1398), Vicente Fernández (1940), Vicente Fox (1942), and Francisco I. Madero (1873).

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Among WRITERS In Mexico

Among writers born in Mexico, Juana Inés de la Cruz ranks 2. Before her are Octavio Paz (1914). After her are Thomas Mayne Reid (1818), Juan Rulfo (1917), Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581), Laura Esquivel (1950), Rosario Castellanos (1925), Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), Mariano Azuela (1873), Cesar Millan (1969), Amado Nervo (1870), and José Emilio Pacheco (1939).

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