Francesca Peacock
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Shining on a light on the remarkable--and in her time scandalous--17th century writer who pioneered the science fiction novel, this biography of the brilliant, courageous proto-feminist largely forgotten by history chronicles her complex and controversiallife.
''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,...