William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

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

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Textual Production Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish , Marchioness of Newcastle, included a dedicatory preface to her husband in CCXI Sociable Letters.
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Family and Intimate relationships Lady Jane Cavendish
The then Earl of Newcastle offered hospitality at Welbeck to Charles I on his journey north to be crowned King of Scotland: probably the first taste of court life for the children Lady Jane and...
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
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...
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
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Jane Cavendish
Lady Jane's father, William Cavendish (later Duke of Newcastle) , was a grandson of Bess of Hardwick , and was from his youth a courtier and a horseman of exceptional skill.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Jane Cavendish
From late 1642 the Earl of Newcastle was seldom at home, increasingly involved in military action (though he stayed at Welbeck with a body of troops from December 1643 to mid-January 1644 both to refresh...
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
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Jane Cavendish
At some date probably in the later 1630s (since a child born in 1630 was old enough to take part), the Earl of Newcastle addressed to each of his children (Jane, Charles, Bess, Franke...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Lucas , in Paris, married the exiled monarchist commander William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle , a wealthy widower thirty years older than herself.
Marquess is the correct form of this British title. It...

Timeline

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

Writing climate item

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...

National or international item

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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