Margaret the First (Hardcover)

Danielle Dutton

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Scribe Publications, Carlton North, 2017

1925321657 / 9781925321654

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Hardcover. "I am as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First.""I am as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second, yet I endeavour to be Margaret the First."When Margaret Cavendish addressed the Royal Society, Samuel Pepys recorded that her dress was "so antic and her deportment so unordinary, that I do not like her at all". And indeed, here vividly reimagined by Danielle Dutton, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century duchess is wholly "unordinary", and all the better for it.Exiled to Paris at the start of the English Civil War, Margaret meets and marries William Cavendish and, with his encouragement, begins publishing volumes of poetry and philosophy, which soon become the talk of the town in London. After Cromwell's defeat, upon their return to England, Margaret's infamy grows. She causes controversy wherever she goes, once attending the theatre with breasts bared, and earns herself the nickname "Mad Madge".Yet while scorned by many, to others Margaret is a visionary, and to later readers - including Virginia Woolf - she was to become an early precursor of feminism. She was the first woman to speak at the Royal Society - and the last for 200 years - and the first to write explicitly for publication. Unjustly neglected by history, Margaret the First - as she styled herself - was a bright, shining paradox. Here, she is brought intimately and memorably to life, tumbling pell-mell across the pages of this invigorating depiction of a woman whose ambitions, and marriage, were often centuries ahead of her time.'The duchess herself would be delighted at her resurrection in Margaret the First . Dutton expertly captures the pathos of a woman whose happiness is furrowed with the anxiety of underacknowledgment . She surprisingly and delightfully offers not just a remarkable duchess struggling in her duke's world but also an intriguing dissection of an unusually bountiful partnership of (almost) equals.'- The New York Times Book Review'Margaret the First is set in the seventeenth century, but don't let that fool you. It's a strikingly smart and daringly feminist novel with modern insights into love, marriage, and the siren call of ambition.'- Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Margaret the First (Hardcover)
Autor
Danielle Dutton
Verlag
Scribe Publications, Carlton North
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Zustand
new
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1925321657
ISBN-13
9781925321654

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