Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
"Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-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. "
A beguiling novel which imagines the life of Margaret Cavendish Lucas, the astonishing author who called Welbeck home.