Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish by Francesca Peacock
Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

Francesca Peacock

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

Francesca Peacock

384 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
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A biography of the remarkable—and in her time scandalous—seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel. Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descen...

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