Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
My last poet that I studied for my PhD was Aphra Behn. She is probably the most well known of the three. Arguably she was the first English novelist, she wrote plays, novels, poems, certainly she was one of the Continue reading Song. Love Arm’d, Aphra Behn
After yesterday’s sober poem, I thought it was time to go back to one of “my women” from my PhD and probably my favourite subject: Margaret Cavendish. Cavendish was an extraordinary woman who defined conventions. She was fascinated in science Continue reading ‘A poet I am neither born, nor bred’, Margaret Cavendish