María de Zayas y Sotomayor (born Sept. 12, 1590, Madrid [Spain]—died c. 1661) was one of the most important of the minor 17th-century Spanish novelists and one of the first women to publish prose fiction in the Castilian dialect. Little is known of Zayas’ life except that she was born into a noble family in Madrid and may have … Continue reading The Ravages Of Vice