February 2, 2001

Rediscovering the Racy Fiction of a 17th-Century Spanish Woman

By SCOTT HELLER

"No doubt, dear reader, it will amaze you that a woman should have the nerve, not just to write a book but actually to have it printed."

With those words, a sensational 17th-century author named Maria de Zayas

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The New Geography of Classic Spanish Literature

began her first

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