Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th-century Mexican Baroque author. She was an avid reader as a child and developed great intellect. Though she was pursued by many suitors, she decided to join a convent where she could continue her studies. She enjoyed many liberties in her early years of authorship, but gradually lost those protections, and came to be the subject of many criticisms. Many argued her works lacked sufficient religious content, which she responded to with Respuesta a Sor Filotea, somewhat of a feminist manifesto. Amid the controversy, Sor Juana was stripped of all her study materials and eventually died in the very convent she had joined 20 years earlier.