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Pure Wit

- The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
Af: Francesca Peacock Engelsk Hardback

Pure Wit

- The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
Af: Francesca Peacock Engelsk Hardback
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''Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs'' Kate Mosse

''Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating'' Alice Loxton

''Well-written, well-researched, interesting and peppy.'' Observer

A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.

‘My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world.’

Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to a wealthy family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford, before following the court into exile in France. It was there that she met her much older lifelong partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Cavendish was a revolutionary writer. At a time when literature was dominated by men, she wrote passionately on gender, science and philosophy, defied convention by publishing under her own name, and advocated for women in work that predates the feminist movement. In 1666, she published The Blazing World, a brilliant, trail-blazing proto-novel thought to be one of the earliest works of science fiction. But her legacy divides opinion. And history has largely forgotten her.

In Pure Wit, Francesca Peacock shines a spotlight on the fascinating, pioneering, yet often complex and controversial life of Margaret Cavendish.

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''Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs'' Kate Mosse

''Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating'' Alice Loxton

''Well-written, well-researched, interesting and peppy.'' Observer

A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.

‘My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world.’

Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to a wealthy family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford, before following the court into exile in France. It was there that she met her much older lifelong partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Cavendish was a revolutionary writer. At a time when literature was dominated by men, she wrote passionately on gender, science and philosophy, defied convention by publishing under her own name, and advocated for women in work that predates the feminist movement. In 1666, she published The Blazing World, a brilliant, trail-blazing proto-novel thought to be one of the earliest works of science fiction. But her legacy divides opinion. And history has largely forgotten her.

In Pure Wit, Francesca Peacock shines a spotlight on the fascinating, pioneering, yet often complex and controversial life of Margaret Cavendish.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 384
ISBN-13: 9781837930173
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1837930171
Kategori: English Civil War & Interregnum
Udg. Dato: 14 sep 2023
Længde: 36mm
Bredde: 162mm
Højde: 242mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 14 sep 2023
Forfatter(e): Francesca Peacock
Forfatter(e) Francesca Peacock

Kategori English Civil War & Interregnum

ISBN-13 9781837930173

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 384

Udgave

Længde 36mm

Bredde 162mm

Højde 242mm

Udg. Dato 14 sep 2023

Oplagsdato 14 sep 2023

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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