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SIM Ep 896 Chops 273: The wild life of Margaret Cavendish

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

If you don't know a huge amount about the English Civil War, join the club. Also, perhaps get your hands on a copy of Francesca Peacock's excellent new book Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish. Hannah got on the Zoom with Francesca to learn about how the war affected Margaret's life, and what that life can tell us about marriage, infertility, literature, fashion and feminism in the 17th century.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Waitrose have added more of your favourites to their new lower prices.

0:03.6

Or is it new, new, lower prices, or newer, new, lower prices?

0:07.9

Well, they've added more, so it could be more, newer, new, lower prices.

0:11.7

Or even the newest of new, lower prices on more.

0:14.2

Ernie, whoo! Waitrose have new, new, lower prices on hundreds of your favourites,

0:19.4

like apples, chicken, and those cheeky ginger nuts. Waitrose.

0:23.0

Food to feel good about.

0:25.0

Selected stores, subjects with availability, prices may vary in a little Waitrose channel islands and concessions.

0:29.9

Hello Hannah here, happy to be introducing you to this week's Sunday Chops.

0:51.5

I recorded this one ages ago and I've only just got round to editing but that's who I am

0:58.0

as a human being. But the good thing about that is, I'd forgotten just how smart and

1:03.3

interesting Francesca Peacock is and how much she loves her subject.

1:08.2

Francesca's book, Pure Wit, The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish, is out now

1:14.3

and I would suggest that you give it a read.

1:17.0

If you don't know who Margaret, also the Duchess of Northumberland was,

1:21.8

I've borrowed this from Francesca's author's note.

1:24.8

She was one of the first women writers to publish in English under her own name and

1:29.9

wrote about subjects far from typical for women of the period.

1:34.1

In her books, Science, Philosophy and Natural History abound across the page alongside

1:40.0

cross-dressing female warriors, feminist heroines and tracts about the sexist nature of marriage.

1:47.6

She gave birth to the genre of science fiction and developed her theories about the nature

1:52.4

of the universe, all while living a resolutely non-traditional life with her husband and

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