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She was rediscovered by feminist scholars in the 20th century. Virginia Woolf wrote that her prose was" leavened by a vein of authentic fire." She has since been the subject of several critical biographies, films, novels & plays -- a star restored to her place in the blazing sky.

Despite her renown and celebrity, she was thoroughly forgotten following her death -- her books out of print, her plays unperformed, her name unspoken. For hundreds of years, Margaret the First was erased from history.

It was widely believed that her husband the Duke was secretly authoring her books -- when in fact she wrote more quickly and urgently than any man of her time. She wrote effortlessly, unstoppably, irrepressibly.

She was accused of plagiarism, dilettantism, and presumptuousness. Her publications were called foolish -- yet also too impressive to have been authored by a woman.

With a vitality verging on desperation, this baffling, over-elaborate, impossibly sincere, sui-generis epic of visionary fictions asks -- or really, demands -- that you do likewise.

Fundamentally, the Blazing World is a sandbox in which the singularly astonishing mind of Margaret Cavendish can stretch, play and build. The book constitutes an urgent exhortation to build & imagine inner worlds, free from the social & material bondage of the physical realm.

She made vital innovations in philosophy, science, & the arts, despite a lack of any formal education in these arenas. THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW WORLD, CALLED THE BLAZING WORLD is perhaps her most awesome act of creation.

Meet Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle: autodidact and visionary. Poetess, playwright, aristocrat, iconoclast, thinker, inventor, wonderer, believer. In her own description, an "illustrious and excellent princesse."

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Artemisia Gentileschi often used herself as a model for the characters in her work. Pictured here is one example of this, her piece “Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting.” (1/3)

Now that Twitter isn't cropping images we are officially unstoppable. (Portrait of us by @RebekkaDunlap)