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Letters: A Bilingual Edition: Volume 112

By (author) Hortense Mancini, Edited by Annalisa Nicholson, Translated by Annalisa Nicholson

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The first translated collection of Hortense Manciniâ€™s correspondence. During the seventeenth century, Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin (1646â€“99), became an icon of womenâ€™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 memoirâ€”one of the first to appear in French by a womanâ€”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 salonniÃ¨re, an exile, and a litigant fighting for legal separation from her husband, Manciniâ€™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. Â