PositiveFlavorwire\"In the first part of Margaret the First, Cavendish reads almost like an old relative whose vivid diary we stumbled upon. There’s a painful intimacy to this section which makes it easy to understand this person who existed 400 years ago. In the second and third parts of the book, however, she is a character in a fictionalized biography, told by a narrator omniscient enough to reveal the kinds of external opinions that would eventually lead to her \'Mad Madge\' image.\
