{"product_id":"2940170514243","title":"Margaret the First: A Novel","description":"\u003ci\u003eMargaret the First\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Queen's 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 another two hundred years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret the First\u003c\/i\u003e is very much a contemporary novel set in the past. Written with lucid precision and sharp cuts through narrative time, it is a gorgeous and wholly new approach to imagining the life of a historical woman.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115402051824,"sku":"2940170514243","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170514243_p0.jpg?v=1763711255","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170514243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}