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- ISBN
- 9781639366033
- Book Title
- Pure Wit : the Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Women, Rich & Famous
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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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. "My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world."--Margaret Cavendish Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford. With the rest of the court she went into self-imposed exile in France. Her family's wealth and lands were forfeited by Parliament. It was in France that she met her partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a marriage that made her the Duchess of Newcastle and would remain at the heart of both her life and career. Margaret was a passionate writer. She wrote extensively on gender, science, philosophy, and published under her own name at a time when women simply did not do so. Her greatest work was The Blazing World, published in 1666, a utopian proto-novel that is thought to be one of the earliest works of science fiction that brought together Margaret's talents in poetry, philosophy, and science. Yet hers is a legacy that has long divided opinion, and history has largely forgotten her, an undeserved fate for a brilliant, courageous proto-feminist. In Pure Wit , Francesca Peacock remedies this omission and shines a spotlight on the fascinating, pioneering, yet often complex and controversial life, of the multi-faceted Margaret Cavendish.
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Pegasus Books
ISBN-10
1639366032
ISBN-13
9781639366033
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25061233172
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Book Title
Pure Wit : the Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Rich & Famous
Publication Year
2024
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
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Engaging portrait of a significant 17th-century cultural figure. Arts journalist Peacock makes an impressive book debut with a deeply researched biography of Margaret Lucas Cavendish (1623-1673), a poet, essayist, fiction writer, and playwright. A sensitive, nuanced biography of an idiosyncratic woman., Peacock is at her best explaining Cavendish's literary achievements. This extraordinary and contradictory woman--shy, reclusive, and a compulsive exhibitionist, dashing into print at every opportunity as a bulwark against mortality, has a far greater claim on our attention than Virginia Woolf believed. Three and a half centuries after her death at the age of fifty, the world is finally ready to stop being afraid of Margaret Cavendish., Every text has a context, and Francesca Peacock brings that context to life in this fast-moving and revealing literary bio., In 'Pure Wit,' Francesca Peacock makes a fresh case for the writer Margaret Cavendish's place in the feminist canon. Peacock works hard to situate her subject alongside other iconoclasts. This is probably the first time Cavendish has been likened to David Bowie and bell hooks, and it would no doubt delight her.
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Dewey Decimal
828.409
Dewey Edition
23
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