Francesca Peacock is a writer and arts journalist based in London.

She has written essays, features, and reviews for publications including the Telegraph, The Times, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Spectator, and Prospect. Her writing has led to appearances on podcasts and radio, including BBC R4’s Today programme and Front Row.

Francesca’s first book, Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish, was published by Head of Zeus in September 2023 in the United Kingdom, and by Pegasus Books in January 2024 in the United States. Pure Wit was a Spectator and History Today book of the year for 2023, and received starred reviews in Kirkus and Publishers Weekly.

Francesca is represented by Sabhbh Curran at Curtis Brown.

To get in contact, email francesca.peacock@outlook.com.

Rajasthan in textiles & textures
books of the year ! a rather late, & distinctly green-spined stack. I failed to track my reading at all this year, but found my tastes for reading for pleasure change as I returned to reading more academic material. 2025 can go down in history as
been a bit of a hermit for all of autumn / winter & i blame it all on the capricious whims of a scrivener document
one year ♥️
In one of her gardening advice columns, Vita Sackville-West wrote that a “small garden” was anything from “half an acre to two acres”. I wonder what she would make of our north-facing patio which is smaller than the average Lo
Happy Easter ! For this month’s Prospect I wrote about the John Morley exhibition at the Garden Museum, snowdrops, and the earth-changing magic of spring 🌷Snippets here and full piece @prospect_magazine