Abstract
Based on archival research and philological analysis, this article aims to recover, evaluate and put into circulation data from two period magazines published in the United States that refer to the past and at the same time update information regarding the knowledge and recognition of the life and work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Specifically, the rescue of a reading testimony and the translation and edition of the poem “Hombres necios que acusáis” is proposed. The New York magazines from which we start update and clarify information from the past. The important thing, it seems to me, is to have arrived –from “women’s” magazines– to what seems to be the first translation into English of Sor Juana’s “foolish men.”
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