María Josefa de la Encarnación

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: White

Events:

1687  -  Mexico  -  Not applicable  -  Born
1752  -  Mexico  -  Unknown  -  Died

Connections:

Nuns
Women, subject of paintings/ songs/true or fictionalised stories

Biography:
An Abbess of the Convento de la Encarnación, Mexico, who was born in 1687 and died in 1752. José María Genovesi wrote about her life in 1753. (Knaster, 142.)

References:

Knaster, Meri (1977) Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times