"I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem."

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Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as a character for a book, but my idea was for a totally different book. It had all these characters in it; Samuel Pepys was one of the main characters. He famously wrote these extensive diaries through the period that are really funny and sort of saucy, actually.

— Danielle Dutton