Sister (Spanish: Sor) Josefa de los Dolores Peña y Lillo Barbosa, OP (also known as sor Josefa de los Dolores or sor Dolores Peña y Lillo, 12 March 1739 – 29 August 1823) was a Dominican nun and a self-taught writer of the Chilean Colonial period ascribed to Catholic confessional discourse produced by Indian nuns in South American cloisters during the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. She cultivated the epistolary genre, but also rarely wrote poetry.
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12 March 1739 Santiago de Chile, Captaincy General of Chile, Spanish Empire
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Died |
12 August 1823 (aged 84)
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Zodiac | Pisces |
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