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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. Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, pp. 9-37. 36 |
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 | 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 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. 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. |
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. 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 |
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 Features | Margaret Cavendish | |
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. 70-2 |
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. 162 |
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...
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,...
National or international item
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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