A Wild Country Out in the Garden: The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun

Madre Maria de San Jose (1656 - 1719)-mystic, chronicler, and co-founder of an Augustinian convent-inscribed her life story within the model of spiritual autobiography set by St. Augustine and Teresa of Avila, but at the same time included her individual story as a seventeenth-century woman of the landowning classes in New Spain. The resulting manuscript records in intimate detail her family life, convent surroundings, and social milieu; it introduces us to a combative and engaging person and gives us a rare and vivid glimpse of a complex society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253335817
• ISBN13: 9780253335814
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher