Letters: A Bilingual Edition Volume 112 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781649591319)

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.


Author: Hortense Mancini
ISBN-10: 1649591314
ISBN-13: 9781649591319
Publisher: Iter Press
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2025
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback