Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, image taken from Wikipedia
Two writers that I have discovered “recently” (meaning a couple of years ago) are the Texan writer William Goyen and the English writer Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), the Duchess of Newcastle. I became a fan of both writers immediately, and having written an entry on William Goyen I thought I should do the same for the Duchess. I don’t think Cavendish is for “everybody” (I would recommend reading Goyen to just anybody, but not the Duchess), as some parts of her writings can be rather dense and/or wearisome. Despite this, she blew my mind away.