Letters of A Portuguese Nun - References To The Letters in Other Works

References To The Letters in Other Works

• Madeleine L'Engle's 1966 novel The Love Letters is based on the legend of Mariana Alcoforado and the Marquis de Chamilly, switching between a set of contemporary characters and Marianna's world of the 1660s.
• Mariana, by Katherine Vaz, 2004 Aliform; ISBN 0-9707652-9-0.
• The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters, by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa, translated by Helen R. Lane, 1973 Doubleday; Novas Cartas Portuguesas original title; ISBN 0-385-01853-3.
• The Love Letters, a novel by Madeleine L'Engle, 1966 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-87788-528-1.
• Even in recent years these letters have been transformed into two short movies (1965 and 1980) and a stage play "Cartas." It was performed in New York in the Bleecker Theatre’s Culture Project in 2001.
• The letters play a small but significant role in the 2005 movie "The Secret Life of Words" ("La Vida Secreta de las Palabras").