Abstract

AbstractThe Anglo‐Venetian Giustiniana Wynne, Countess of Rosenberg Orsini, best known for her novel Les Morlaques (1788), had epistolary relations with friends from the Veneto as well as across Europe and is therefore part of the network of the European Republic of Letters. Attached to her homeland, the Republic of Venice, and also a cosmopolitan, she took advantage of her personal network to develop an authorial identity. After a bio‐bibliographical overview, I trace how a woman of letters created herself through the relational economy manifest in the letters addressed to William Beckford, Aurelio Bertola, and Elisabetta Mosconi.

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