Prior to her current position on the creative writing faculty at Washington University in St. In 2015, she wrote the texts for Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera, an artists' book with collages by Richard Kraft.ĭutton holds a PhD in literature and writing from the University of Denver, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in history from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of a collection of hybrid prose pieces, Attempts at a Life, which Daniel Handler in Entertainment Weekly called "indescribably beautiful," and an experimental novel, S P R A W L, a finalist for the Believer Book Award. Written with lucid precision and sharp cuts through narrative time, it is a gorgeous and wholly new approach to imagining the life of a historical woman.ĭanielle Dutton's fiction has appeared in magazines such as Harper's, BOMB, Fence, and Noon. Margaret the First is very much a contemporary novel set in the past. Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of London-a mainstay of the Scientific Revolution-and the last for another two hundred years. After the War, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England at the dawn of daily newspapers, she was "Mad Madge," an original tabloid celebrity. As the English Civil War raged on, Margaret met and married William Cavendish, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. As one of the Queen's attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when "being a writer" was not an option open to women. Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional seventeenth-century duchess.
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