Letters

A Bilingual Edition

von Hortense Mancini

176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The first translated collection of Hortense Mancini's correspondence.

During the seventeenth century, Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (1646-99), became an icon of women's emancipation. In 1668, she shocked Europe when she fled her coercive husband and began a nomadic exile. Her notoriety increased in 1675 with the publication of her memoir--one of the first to appear in French by a woman--and was later magnified by her stint as the royal mistress of Charles II of England and by her establishment of a freethinking salon in London. As a salonnière, an exile, and a litigant fighting for legal separation from her husband, Mancini's letters were a means of connection, collusion, and survival as well as cultural collaboration. Collected and translated here for the first time, this correspondence charts her struggle for autonomy in her own words.

• Reihe: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Veröffentlichte Tagebücher, Briefe, Notizbücher
• ISBN: 9781649591319
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.12.2025
• Größe: 227 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Iter Press
• Übersetzung: Annalisa Nicholson
• Herausgegeben von: Annalisa Nicholson