Annalisa Nicholson

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 🐥 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📖 @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. 🔓 bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?doci…

@KirstieMillar @BloomsburyHist Thank you! 💕

✨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! 🌸🌻🌷

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:mgt42@cam.ac.uk

@sharondnell Thank you!

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! 😍✨😭

@brown_bookshelf 🙏

@apuddleofmuddle Must read

@MancheSolange Thank you Solange! 🥰

@GCoatalen Thank you for your help with some of the trickier, messier paleography!

@apuddleofmuddle Excellent!

@jamesmc32231278 Thank you!! X

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 🎭

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

International Women’s Day reads (accidentally v apt bc we celebrating women everyday in this house) #IWD2025

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 diva-magazine.com/2025/02/12/hor…

📢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/insti…

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 👻

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

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