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PURE WIT: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish ✨ Art, books, and culture writer. Words in Telegraph, Times, Spectator, Prospect etc. Rep’d by @SabhbhC
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It’s publication day, and I'm staring at my stack of books (& publication day flowers in a vase made by some monks) and feeling overwhelmingly lucky to have got this book into the world❣️Whatever celestial realm she is in, I really hope Cavendish is enjoying her own sparkly copy
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To the person at the London Library who has taken out all of the books related to the *very, very* niche topic I am currently researching — who are you? Reveal yourself: let's fall in love or murder each other
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I wrote about the political nature of John Berger’s art criticism, and how he managed to create the most unlikely of things: a mainstream BBC television series that was Marxist in both intention and outcome – for
@VersoBooks
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stupendously good opening (anita brookner, a start in life)✨
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This is a wonderful exchange between Natalia Ginzburg and Alba de Céspedes about female interiority and women's self-knowledge. When I was writing about Ginzburg's politics I discovered how few of her essays are readily available in English translations
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my influence was strong on the boyfriend’s book haul
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Natalia Ginzburg wrote brilliant fiction, but she was also deeply involved in Italian left-wing politics. From abortion to adoption laws, and feminism to her conception of her Jewish identity – I wrote about her politics for
@VersoBooks
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MERVE EMRE on Margaret Cavendish and Pure Wit in the NEW YORKER !!🪐✨ 💫
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32 hours of exams 20,000 words of coursework later .... well and truly trashed
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Over the moon to announce the ✨BEAUTIFUL✨ cover for PURE WIT: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIFE OF MARGARET CAVENDISH, which comes out in six months and a day! For everything from early feminism to saucy love poems and 17th-century science, you can pre-order it now
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✨💫PURE WIT: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIFE OF MARGARET CAVENDISH 💫✨ I am SO excited to announce that my first book — a biography of the radical 17th-century writer Margaret Cavendish — will be published by the wonderful
@HoZ_Books
in September 2023!
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yesterday was a very special day ✨ - pics barely do them justice
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Probably very wrong to be reading your own book on the bus - but (ridiculously gorgeous) proofs are here! ✨⚛️💫🪐🖋️
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very, very much need everyone else to read this book so we can discuss ! Morante fan club ..?
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Not hot girl summer but instead Henry James heroine spring: going to put on an American accent and be too flirtatious in Switzerland, pale and deathly ill in Venice, and affront my destiny in Florence
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Utterly, daftly incoherent as well as being repulsive — unsure how many of Emma Duncan’s beloved 19th century novels posit a world in which everything is better if people just focus on profit and production?
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Still don’t have the books I need, but I do have pretty evening light
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Was quite overwhelmed by Paula Modersohn-Becker at the
@royalacademy
today: her way with paint; her depictions of mother-and-child intimacy; the fact that, after having worried about how she could be both an artist and a mother, she died aged 31 from a postpartum embolism
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swoon-worthy details (and dogs) at the lavinia fontana exhibition
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Got back from a gail’s run this morning to the lovely DPD man at the door and THE MOST EXCITING PARCEL IN THIS BLAZING WORLD 💫🪐♥️
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How a cross-dressing, bullet-dodging 17th century duchess dared to imagine life in other worlds 🪐💃🏼 I wrote an essay for the
@Telegraph
about Margaret Cavendish as the mother of science fiction ✨
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obsessed by how “jean rhys heroine” this woman is (Degas's 1876 painting, L'Absinthe)
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I wrote about Leonora Carrington and how a focus on her life & biography can leave her wonderfully disconcerting art out in the cold 💫 — for
@TheSpectator
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nervous / excited / happy tears in the library this afternoon …. because IT’S BEEN TYPSET
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🌟I’m super excited to start as Deputy Online Editor at
@TheCriticMag
tomorrow! If you want to say hello, email me at francesca.peacock[at]🌟
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I wrote about Time Is a Mother and why I think it might be one of the worst collections published this year (in hardback, no less)
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Brontë Peacock — her debut book, Everything I Know About Treats, will be published in Spring 2024 💛
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it’s coming home is the modern version of waiting for godot
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A review that made me burst into (happy) tears while I was eating my lunch --
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Mid 17th century decorative face-patches ! Obsessed !
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I wrote about four Impressionists you're unlikely to see in many exhibitions of the movement: Berthe Morisot, Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, and Eva Gonzalès, — for
@artukdotorg
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After a fantastic time at The Critic, I have gone freelance! I write book reviews, art reviews, features, and essays — and would love to hear from editors. Contact me, and add me to mailing lists, at francesca[dot]peacock[at]outlook[dot]com
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May or may not have taken a copy of
@Tatlermagazine
to the pub because MARGARET CAVENDISH IS IN IT !!! ✨🍒💋💫
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I got to write about very possibly my favourite book(s) in the world, Marguerite Duras’s shifting & changing The Lover — for
@TheTimesBooks
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I explored the decline of the state of the nation novel for
@unherd
— and spoke to the brilliant
@AmandaPCraig
@djtaylorwriter
and William Boyd
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Utterly honoured to have been chosen by Lucasta Miller as one of her Spectator books of the year, and in such wonderful company !
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Will be on R4 Front Row later talking all things Margaret Cavendish & The Blazing World with Siri Hustvedt !! ✨💫🌟🪐
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pro tip: bottle the tears you cry whilst writing your covid dissertation with no resources and keep them as an elixir of your lost and wasted youth
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In honour of women’s history month, I’m going to be calling each and every man who annoys me “hysterical” for the foreseeable future
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Are there any paperback editions more heart-breakingly show-stoppingly stylish than these 1960s Faber ones? I don’t even like Lawrence Durrell but I still had to buy it
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Yet another press conference with absolutely no mention of university libraries. It’s not just teaching we need: how on earth am I meant to hand in 14,000 words of coursework next term if we don’t have access to books?
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Charleston & Berwick Church (with murals by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell!) + show-stealing hollyhocks 🌷
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Has anyone ever tried to retrace all of Clarissa Dalloway's steps on a Wednesday in mid-June? Buying the flowers themselves, peering into Hatchards, fixing a dress, hosting a party...?
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Just wrote the last sentence of my conclusion and now I am torn between wanting to cry / throw up / drink a bottle of champagne / go to sleep for a week 🍾
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on a one woman mission to bring back tulip fever ! 🌷
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the berthe morisot exhib at dulwich picture gallery is a joy ✨
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I’m not saying life feels like a disgustingly happy rom com, but I am saying that at a vaguely hungover post-book-launch-breakfast this morning I did run into Bill Nighy
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Gran on her 86th birthday and the book that’s dedicated to her 💛
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❣️🍷A Very Beautiful US cover for PURE WIT ♥️💃🏼 - which is published by
@Pegasus_Books
on the 2nd of January! If you are so inclined you can preorder it now
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It's publication day for PURE WIT in the US! 💫 Utterly delighted to have had such lovely reviews in the NYT and WSJ! Tempting to imagine what Cavendish would think of about being in America -- maybe she would buy herself new shoes? A new carriage? 🪐
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deliriously excited & honoured to be the lead book review in this week’s
@spectator
and to be read by such a legend as Lucy Hughes-Hallett ! 🪐✨❣️
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The queue for the barbers on turl street at 9am was quite impressive (it goes on all the way to the missing bean)
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Can you imagine the carnage of doing lateral flows in the queue for a club? You've been to pres so the chances of the test being accurate are slim, your drunk friend tests positive but your more drunk friend is negative and is already wreaking havoc inside ... truly dire
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Went to Birmingham yesterday to see the re-opened Gas Hall & an exhibition of Victorian Radicals
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🎉 Delighted to read this in
@TheSpectator
! — “revelatory and genre-bending” (and out in September) 🌟
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delighted to have the most beautiful layout Of My Life about why we love Vermeer so much in this month’s
@TheSpectator
✨💙 and online here -
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The loss of Joni Mitchell *and* Neil Young has decimated my moping-on-a-Saturday-morning-with-a-hangover playlist and I am now at a loss as to what to do with myself
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Over the moon 🌝 to see that PURE WIT is in this week’s
@TheTLS
NB column about literary anniversaries in 2023. Margaret Cavendish was born 400 years ago in 1623 — and my biography of her comes out next September with
@HoZ_Books
for her anniversary! ✨
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I just caught myself eating a hunk of parmesan whilst reading Restoration drama: my transformation into Samuel Pepys is nearly complete (can someone please send me a wig?)
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Went out for milk and eggs, came home with this. The perils of living near a bookshop.
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something something Kate Middleton vanished to write the new Salley Rooney novel
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Everyone knows the real locus of literary sexual tension is the BL’s rare books & music
'It’s a quaint picture. But in reality, I get the sense that the place is as much a crèche for trust-funded literary wannabes as it is a working library for grumpy academics and novelists.'
@GusCarter
has a dispatch from the London Library.
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On the 13th January 1668, Pepys decides he can't buy a book because it is "the most bawdy, lewd book" he has ever seen. Just over three weeks later he buys it but insists on it being in "plain binding" so he can burn it as soon as he has finished reading.
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Caroline Calloway’s “typos are my brand” hat has the same vibe as Margaret Cavendish saying “it is against nature for a woman to spell right” (I think Calloway and Cavendish would be ~toxic?~ besties)
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I wrote about Ana Mendieta in the wake of Carl Andre's death for the weekend's
@Telegraph
-- and hugest of huge thanks to both
@sineadgleeson
and
@LaurenElkin
adding their voices to the piece
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A weekend of brilliant Parisian bookshops and I’ve managed to leave with yet another edition of John Donne
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Monday morning mood (courtesy of Gertrude Abercrombie) 🐈⬛✨
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I reviewed Maeve Brennan’s brilliant collection of Dublin short stories —which has been out of print for 20 years! — for the
@spectator
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Rather uncontactable until the end of the week alas — but very happy reading and drinking
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This by
@marlowetatiana
is one of the best things I’ve ever read and it didn’t get *nearly* enough attention over here when it came out in the UK. It’s a mix of Jean Rhys-sadness and Nancy Mitford-esque parties with a barb and a flair that is unbelievably compelling.
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but I'm back now so can't be stopped. It's so dispiriting for so many reasons, not least the fact the writer seems to see the only purpose of life as 'ease'? no fulfilment from anything except enjoying her husband's wealth? makes me think of this para in one of Solnit's essays
was typing out a tweet about that essay in the cut when my phone died, which is probably a sign i should stop procrastinating & return to trying to read medieval latin
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I wrote about Mary Sidney, Christine de Pizan, and Margaret Cavendish (and others!) for
@EngelsbergIdeas
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Amina Cain does not miss!!! All the subtlety and spooky stillness of Indelicacy but in brilliant, genre-bending essays (and every book she mentions I want to read - treating it like a school reading list)
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Trying to write whilst in bed with a cold: a mood board
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Aiming for this level of elegance as I go through my copy edits🌷
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upset by the coverage of other dogs in the paper 🐾
Brontë Peacock — her debut book, Everything I Know About Treats, will be published in Spring 2024 💛
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💫🧚🏻♀️!!! This very niche research was related to Book Stuff … and Very Exciting Book News has now happened !!! More details (publication-related; murderous love affairs; other scandalous 17th century gossip) to follow soon! ✨🧚🏻♀️🍾
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!! paperback cover !!
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Nothing quite so much fun as finding 16th / 17th c doodles
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Jonathan Buckley reading from his v funny enticing new novel Tell at the wonderful
@DauntBooksPub
x
@FitzcarraldoEds
showcase. Cycled away with a stack of proofs & a barrel of excitement about spring books 🌷
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Absolute gem about publishing salaries for women in the 1950s (from an oral history of the book trade)
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I’m in print !!
@TheCriticMag
is with subscribers today and in newsagents, WH Smith, and Waitrose on Thursday
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