Overview: Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when βbeing a writerβ was not an opt
Margaret the First: A Novel
β Scribed by Dutton, Danielle
- Book ID
- 108981104
- Publisher
- Catapult
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781936787364
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β¦ Synopsis
One of both Flavorwire and The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2016
Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when "being a writer" was not an option open to women. As one of the Queen's attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on, Margaret met and married William Cavendish, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. After the War, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England: at the dawn of daily newspapers, she was "Mad Madge," an original tabloid celebrity. Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of London--a mainstay of the Scientific Revolution--and the last...
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