num_pages: 48
description: The "Portuguese Letters" were published anonymously in 1669, alleged translations into French of letters written by a Portuguese nun to a French officer who had loved and left her. Recent scholarship suggests Guilleragues was their author. Reminiscent of the exchanges between Heloise and Abelard of an earlier time, the letters display a remarkable acuity of psychological insight into the mind of a woman in love and on the edge of hysteria.
language: English
title: The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
titlecomplete: The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
characters: Mariana Alcoforado
genres: French Literature, Classics, Portugal, France, Nonfiction, Romance, Literature, 17th Century, Poetry, Portuguese Literature
ratings_count: 1092
places: Portugal
publisher: Harvill Pr