William Cavendish, courtier, horseman and Royalist commander in the north, lost his fortune after the defeat at Marston Moor and went into exile, where he married the young Margaret Lucas. Thomas Longueville tells the story of both, drawing heavily on Margaret Cavendish’s own life of her husband and her other writings.
A lively double portrait of a Civil War grandee and one of the most original women writers of the seventeenth century. Download the free EPUB.