Pure Wit. The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

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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 M

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