Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper – by Neil Buttery & Blighty or Bust: The Epic 2,000-Mile Escape of WWII prisoner-of-war, Raymond Bailey. In His Own Words – Edited by David Wilkins
Margaret Cavendish wrote utopian SciFi in the 1600s - long before Mary Shelley and others. Her work The Blazing World explores topics such as rulership, gender norms and futuristic technologies.