Conceptually, I love the book but in execution, not so much.  The book by Danielle Dutton is an overview of the life of Margaret Cavendish, a 17th century English polymath who survived the British Civil War in exile while much of her family was executed, eventually returning with her husband upon the restoration of King Charles II.  Margaret was self-taught in that unlike her brothers she was not sent to school or provided with tutors, yet became an accomplished writer, philosopher, fashionista and commenter on […]