{"product_id":"9781649591319-letters-a-bilingual-edition","title":"Letters","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Bilingual Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first translated collection of Hortense Mancini’s correspondence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57278982226294,"sku":"9781649591319","price":47.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40025439.jpg?v=1771483504","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781649591319-letters-a-bilingual-edition","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}