Study Questions:

1. Why does López de Córdoba compose her Memorias?

2. According to what she relates to us, what are the most significant episodes in her life?

3. What purpose is the use of dialogue? When does she employ it?

4. The temporal distance between the events as they occurred and the moment that she has them recorded is great  (it is thought that her Memorias were produced 12 years after she was thrown out of her aunt's house). How does memory influence the selection, organization and description of the events in her work?

5. What role do men play in her autobiography? Women?

6. How would you describe López de Córdoba as an individual? In other words, how would you characterize her?