William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Standard Name: Newcastle, William Cavendish,,, Duke of
Used Form: William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle

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Wealth and Poverty Margaret Cavendish
Booth confessed that an anonymous accusation of her adultery, received by Margaret Cavendish's husband on 3 November 1670, had in fact been forged by a steward. The duke's two surviving children, Henry and Frances, were...
Travel Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish (as Marchioness of Newcastle) began a spell of more than a year in London with her brother-in-law Sir Charles Cavendish , trying to negotiate the partial return of her husband 's confiscated estates.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, pp. 9-37.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lady Jane Cavendish
The Marquess of Newcastle is presented as a kinglike, almost godlike figure, whose absence causes the writer(s) acute emotional pain. He is also the guarantor of his daughter's poetic identity: if she can bee your...
Textual Production Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish , Marchioness of Newcastle, in London on her exiled husband 's business, published her first book: Poems, and Fancies.
Grant, Douglas. Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Textual Production Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish , Marchioness of Newcastle, included a dedicatory preface to her husband in CCXI Sociable Letters.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle , published The Life of . . . William Cavendishe, Duke . . . of Newcastle . . ..
Grant, Douglas. Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Textual Production Lady Jane Cavendish
According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, LJC gave this date to the apparently earliest-written poem in her (and her sister Lady Elizabeth Brackley 's) manuscript collections which were transcribed by her father
Textual Production Margaret Cavendish
Her prefatory address To the Readers explains the kind of reading performance she envisaged for her plays, and acknowledges her husband 's contribution of certain scenes, which she says she has marked to avoid misleading...
Textual Production Lady Jane Cavendish
While his master was away in exile abroad, the Marquess of Newcastle 's secretary, John Rolleston , made at least two presentation copies for him of a collection of poetry by LJC (and her sister...
Textual Production Margaret Cavendish
When a comedy by MC 's husband the Duke of Newcastle, The Humorous Lovers, was acted in 1667, many of the audience (including Samuel Pepys and Aphra Behn 's lover Jeffrey Boys ) supposed...
Textual Features Margaret Cavendish
This is a formal and in many ways old-world celebration, though MC 's irrepressible personality comes through here and there. The title relays the Duke of Newcastle's various honours and peerages. Dedications to the king
Residence Margaret Cavendish
After months in Rotterdam hoping vainly for an invasion of England, Margaret Cavendish (then Marchioness of Newcastle) and her husband settled in the Rubenshuis in Antwerp, previously the house of Rubens the painter.
Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury.
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politics Lady Jane Cavendish
LJC failed in her persistent efforts during the Interregnum to secure a pardon for her father , but she succeeded in making it possible for both her brothers to return to England. She managed to...
Other Life Event Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle , on a rare visit to London with her husband , was entertained by the Royal Society as a distinguished visitor.
Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury.
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Intertextuality and Influence Lucy Hutchinson
LH wrote so that her children might learn about their father's life; she was also mindful of her husband's dying injunction to her to shew her selfe in this occasion a good christian, and above...

Timeline

July 1634: William Cavendish, Earl (later Duke) of Newcastle,...

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July 1634

William Cavendish, Earl (later Duke) of Newcastle , gave a masque at one of his Nottinghamshire estates for Queen Henrietta Maria : Love's Welcome at Bolsover.

2 June 1644: The Battle of Marston Moor near York was...

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2 June 1644

The Battle of Marston Moor near York was fought: a singularly bloody affair, and the largest battle of the English Civil War.

8 July 1644: William Cavendish (then Marquess of Newcastle,...

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8 July 1644

William Cavendish (then Marquess of Newcastle , later husband of Margaret Cavendish ), commander-in-chief of royalist forces in England, landed in Hamburg in Germany.

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