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Lisa Hilton
Book Review
The wit and wisdom of Margaret Cavendish
As a portrait of the thrilling, rackety milieu of the seventeenth-century literary world, Francesca Peacock’s
Pure Wit
is truly delightful
By Lisa Hilton
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