Letters: A Bilingual Edition (Volume 112) (The . Mancini, Mancini,**

Name: Letters: A Bilingual Edition (Volume 112) (The . Mancini, Mancini,**
Brand: Iter Press

Iter Press

The first translated collection of Hortense Mancini\u2019s correspondence.\nDuring the seventeenth century, Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (1646\u201399), became an icon of women\u2019s 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\u2014one of the first to appear in French by a woman\u2014and 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 salonni\u00E8re, an exile, and a litigant fighting for legal separation from her husband, Mancini\u2019s letters were a means of connection, collusion, and survival as well as cultural collaboration. Collected and translated here for the first time, this\n\nLetters \u2013 A Bilingual Edition\nA Bilingual Edition\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked;