Francesca Peacock

'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...

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...