Le parole scritte saranno l'unico strumento per tenere acceso il desiderio di entrambi. more Costretta a lasciare Venezia, Giustiniana Wynne avvia un rapporto epistolare segreto con Andrea Memmo che durerà due anni. This paper proposes to look for connections between Charrière, Wynne and Stolberg, in conjunction with data collection and analysis, and thus to serve as a model for formulating new thoughts about the way we approach a gendered remapping of the intellectual networks of the past.Ĭostretta a lasciare Venezia, Giustiniana Wynne avvia un rapporto epistolare segreto con Andrea M. Revolution, exile, national and social identity are dots that connect their intellectual profiles.įor each of these three women, vast collections of letters have survived, in Charrière’s and Stolberg’s case, these are for the most part well published or well-studied, although 18 new letters by Stolberg have just recently surfaced in Wynne’s case, besides the hundred or so published letters written in early adulthood, there are hundreds of letters from her mature years waiting to be studied. Compared data about their lives and writings reveals a similar intellectual drive – to participate in Enlightenment's debates, to promote social and political reform, to free their lives of gendered restraints. Their biographies have in common complicated love affairs, extensive travel, outsiderhood, the use of French as their cultural lingua franca. more Isabelle Charrière (Dutch writer and “virtual salonnière” living mostly in Switzerland), Giustiniana Wynne (1737-1791 Anglo-Venetian author and salonnière living mostly in Venice), Louise Stolberg (1752-1824 Danish-born salonnière in Paris and Florence, and estranged wife of Charles, exiled pretender to the English throne) – three women culturally active in the second half of the 18th century, all three women of independence in spirit in thought. Isabelle Charrière (Dutch writer and “virtual salonnière” living mostly in Switzerland), Giustini.

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