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A Bilingual Edition
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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...
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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.
Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
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Letters
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...PaperbackSold Out -
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781649591319
Publisher: Iter Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 December 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Iter Press
Illustration: 10 color plates
Contributors:
- Edited by Annalisa Nicholson
- Translated by Annalisa Nicholson
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 286g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Hortense Mancini was Duchess of Mazarin and the author of a memoir and many letters. Annalisa Nicholson is a British Academy Research Fellow at King’s College London. She is the author of A Salon-in-Exile: Hortense Mancini and the French Diaspora in Restoration London as well as articles on Charles de Saint-Évremond and Madeleine de Scudéry.
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