Francesca Peacock

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Francesca Peacock is an author and arts journalist from London. She writes about books, art, and culture for The Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator, and Prospect, amongst other publications. Pure Wit is her first book.

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Books by Francesca Peacock

Pure Wit

The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

By Francesca Peacock

A biography of the remarkable—and in her time scandalous—seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel.

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