A review by owlette
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton

4.0

First of all, the cover is pretty. I am sick of covers with titles printed in large with some generic abstract pattern of plants and birds in the background. The (un)creative convergence upsets me every time I browse the discount fiction section of my local bookstore. Speaking of everything being the same, this book also sits on the no plot, just series of poetically written vignette trend, which I am not a fan of because they often leave me feeling unsatisfied. But Danielle Dutton illustrates Margaret's blooming as a writer and her fragile sense of self-esteem (she cries after coming back from the Royal Society because she thinks she made a fool of herself) without writing a dense biographical narrative. Despite what I just said, I think more biographies could be written in vignettes instead of, you know, 600-page dissertations.