Download or read book Zayas & her sisters written by Judith A. Whitenack and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fourteen short novelas (cortas or cortesanas) in one convenient, readable volume, the work of four women of the Spanish Golden Age: Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra, Leonor de Meneses, and Ana Abarca de Boles y Mur. The stories were immensely popular; now they are easily available. Introductions and notes address a wide audience of scholars, teachers, students, and the general reader."