{"title":"Hortense Mancini","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"letters-by-hortense-mancini-9781649591319","title":"Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first translated collection of Hortense Mancini's correspondence.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071847973100,"sku":"9781649591319","price":97.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8645943482775.jpg?v=1765055662"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/hortense-mancini.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}