Danielle Dutton

Margaret Cavendish was a shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess who wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when 'being a writer' was not an option open to women. As one of the Queen's attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. She met and married William Cavendish, who encouraged her writing and...