Margaret the First - Danielle Dutton

Danielle Dutton

Category: Novel

Narrator: Lucy Rayner

Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults, Literature

Original publication date: 2016 Audiobook release date: 2016 Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Audiobook duration: 4:43:06, -, Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional seventeenth-century duchess. The eccentric Margaret 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 Queens attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on, Margaret met and married William Cavendish, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. After the War, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England; at the dawn of daily newspapers, she was Mad Madge, an original tabloid celebrity. Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of London-a mainstay of the Scientific Revolution-and the last for ano