William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle

Standard Name: Newcastle, William Cavendish,,, Duke of

Used Form: William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater	Elizabeth Cavendish's father, William Cavendish, Viscount Mansfield (later Duke of Newcastle) , was a grandson of the almost legendary Bess of Hardwick . He is remembered as a horsemaster, a patron of literature and the...
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...
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, 1988. 70-2
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, 2000, pp. 9-37. 36
Cultural formation	Margaret Cavendish	Margaret Cavendish 's husband was created Duke of Newcastle in recognition of his services to the crown. Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-37. 37 Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols. 9: 524
Friends, Associates	Margaret Cavendish	John Evelyn , as a member of the Royal Society , several times visited the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle (sometimes with his wife ) to arrange their visit to the Society. Cavendish, Margaret. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Editors Bowerbank, Sylvia and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000. 91
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, 1988. 162
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, 1957. 126
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.
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, 1957. 188
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...

Timeline

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.

Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-37.

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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.

Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.

123

Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.

317

Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.

336

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.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Father of two women writers, he was shortly to marry a third.

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