Bárbara Mujica is a Professor Emerita of Spanish literature at Georgetown University, where she taught early modern Spanish literature with a specialization in the Spanish mystics, women's writing, and Spanish theater. She was awarded a Presidential Medal, the School of Languages and Linguistics Service Medal, and the Dean's Medal for Excellence in Teaching. Throughout her career she published numerous scholarly books and she is founder and editor of Comedia Performance, a journal devoted to early modern Spanish theater. She is also the author of many works of fiction, including the novel Sister Teresa (Spanish edition: Hermana Teresa).

• Introduction, Part I: Maria de San José, 1. The (Almost) Silenced Epistolary Pen of Maria de San José, 2. Drama in Seville, 3. On to Portugal, 4. Battles, 5. Trials, Part II: Ana de Jesús, 6. Paris and Beyond, 7. In the Low Countries, Part III: Ana de San Bartolomé, 8. The Other Ana, 9. Ana and the French, 10. The Antwerp Foundation, 11. Friends and Enemies., 12. The Ones Who Stayed Behind: The Letters of Catalina de Cristo to Ana de San Bartolomé, Conclusion, Index