This book offers a richly detailed and elegant account of the Mazarin Salon in London in the late seventeenth century. It is a valuable read for historians of Anglo-French cultural exchanges.

Jérôme Brillaud, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, University of Manchester, UK

This captivating and erudite book significantly shifts our understanding of both French salons and London sociability. Lisa Nicholson gives us a vivid portrait of Mancini's seriously playful salon in all its cross-confessional, cross-linguistic range, unforgettable in its account of exiled aristocrats and errant creatures of many kinds.

Katherine Ibbett, Professor of French, University of Oxford, UK

A strong defence of how transnational perspectives can represent a renewal of literary history, through an excellent exploration of cross-cultural exchange and tolerance in Hortense Mancini's salon-in-exile, elucidating its function as both a site of resistance against absolutist and patriarchal regimes and a form of collective practice.

 Carin Franzén, Professor of Comparative literature, Stockholm University, Sweden

In A Salon-in-Exile, Lisa Nicholson brings Hortense Mancini's cosmopolitan and multilingual salon vividly to life. Deeply researched and delightfully written, Nicholson shows us Restoration London – and French salon culture – as we have never seen them before, in a richly detailed portrait of exile exuberance and cultural exchange.

Dr John Gallagher, Associate Professor of Early Modern History, University of Leeds, UK

Meticulously researched, Nicholson's daring and often moving portrait of Mancini and her network explores how figures of dissent “lived otherwise,” between and among countries, languages, political regimes, and religions. A story of early-modern resistance to communitarisme and embrace of the cosmopolitan, this is queer literary history at its most engrossing.

Juliette Cherbuliez, Professor, University of Minnesota, USA