Early modernist @KingsCollegeLon ~ exile, gender, Huguenots, Francophonie ~ she/her
Cambridge, England
Joined November 2011
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Fittingly for #LGBTplusHM 🏳️🌈, my article on the salon of seventeenth-century queer icon Hortense Mancini is out online with @SEMFS! It explores her salon, her bisexuality, & a poem by her fellow exile & bisexual Saint-Évremond on lesbian hens 🐥
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📖 @apuddleofmuddle A Salon-in-Exile shows how Hortense Mancini’s 17th-century London salon became a vibrant hub for French exiles, turning the traditional French salon into a pan-European space of intellectual, literary & cultural exchange.
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✨Excitingly my monograph now has a cover!✨ It’s out in November @BloomsburyHist which means there will finally be a whole book on Hortense Mancini’s salon, the eager few will be relieved to know. It comes with an academic price tag £££ but will be Open Access.
Blurb and link here: bloomsbury.com/uk/saloninex.... I wish I had the power to make academic books reasonably priced, and I am fighting that battle, but for now my tip for getting £££ books is to offer to review them for a journal - and order for your libraries 🙏
Lazy Sundays with Breeze Barrington’s new book on women at the Restoration court. Review out soon! 🌸🌻🌷
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Welcome to our exciting event exploring the evolution of diasporas from the Mediterranean to a global scale during the Early Modern Period.
To request the teams link, please write to:[email protected]
When I started working on Hortense Mancini nine years ago, every book said that (almost) none of her letters had survived. Since then, I’ve managed to find about seventy… transcribed them, translated them, and proofs are now here! 😍✨😭
Happily made it to ‘Rise Up’ @FitzMuseum_UK today. The beautiful double portrait of Dido Belle and Elizabeth Murray is even more gorgeous irl. And loved seeing all the playbills advertising Ira Aldridge as Othello, Macbeth & King Lear 🎭
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Thinking about some Protestant "femmes fortes" on #InternationalWomensDay : Jeanne d'Albret, Louise de Coligny, Georgette de Montenay, Catherine de Parthenay, Annabell Murray and Marie Stewart, countesses of Mar - and Esther Inglis. @EMWjournal @ScotsHistory
ALT Louise de Coligny, Mauritshuis
ALT Catherine de Parthenay, Protestant Museum
ALT Marie Stewart, National Galleries of Scotland
ALT Georgette de Montenay, BNF
International Women’s Day reads (accidentally v apt bc we celebrating women everyday in this house) #IWD2025
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From midnight sword fights to introducing champagne to England, the affair between Hortense Mancini and Anne Lennard was nothing short of dramatic
Learn more about them this #LGBT+ History month
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📢For any early modernists still here: 3 x 4-year postdoc jobs at Durham in French, History, & Italian!! Also 3 x PhDs. All working under the banner of 'Inventing Futures' in a wonderful department. Apply / spread the word
durham.ac.uk/research/instit…
A virtual Glastonbury-style queue this morning for the St James’s Palace tour @RCT so I can find out whether the ghost of Hortense Mancini really haunts the rooms 👻
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From Early Modern Women, this article takes a closer look at a story Madeleine de Scudéry wrote about her two pet chameleons. Learn what this story reveals about Scudéry's opinions concerning the emotional inner lives of animals here: ow.ly/1qKe50UYZ8N @SSEMWomenGender
ALT Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Final checks for the monograph at The National Archives… and then I promise to work on something that isn’t to do with Hortense Mancini
Some great early modern women content in this month’s @HistoryToday - on the allegedly ‘Mad Duchess’ of Albemarle & the ethics of writing histories tied up with mental health
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Born 375 years ago, Nell Gwyn was England's most celebrated actress and Charles II's favourite mistress. @sixteenthCgirl finds out more about her from Prof. Laura Engel and Charles Beauclerk, a direct descendant of Charles and Nell: podfollow.com/not-just-the-t…
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♥️Competition time! A special Valentine's giveaway to cheer the gloomy days of mid-February. A signed copy of my Reynard the Fox, a gold-edged Fox for All Seasons journal, a box of Guylian Seashells, a Lindt heart full of truffles & an elegant fox companion. Simply like, share and follow to win!♥️
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We're excited to announce a special online seminar featuring Distinguished Professor Emerita Merry Wiesner-Hanks, discussing her new book Women and the Reformations.
13 February 2025 via Zoom, 7pm GMT (1 hour).
Please join us! #womenshistory
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Save MLANG at Cardiff University! chng.it/RMWFwLDn via @UKChange
Solidarity to all colleagues & students at Cardiff facing cuts and redundancies. We need students to learn intercultural communication and the value of different cultures now more than ever
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Call for Conference Papers
Thrilled to share the CfP for Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of #EarlyModern Natural Philosophy
26–27th June 2025, ARU, Cambridge
Deadline for submissions: Monday 3rd March 2025.
Please share widely!
scientificpoetry.org/news/20…