{"product_id":"letters-hortense-mancini-9781649591319","title":"Letters: A Bilingual Edition Volume 112","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first translated collection of Hortense Mancini's correspondence.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hortense Mancini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1649591314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781649591319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Iter Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Hortense Mancini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47419549712639,"sku":"9781649591319","price":51.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f290557d-8d6b-46e5-ad06-04167a1e6bdd.jpg?v=1761512276","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/letters-hortense-mancini-9781649591319","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}