Margaret Cavendish

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Standard Name: Cavendish, Margaret
Birth Name: Margaret Lucas
Married Name: Margaret Cavendish
Titled: Margaret Cavendish, Marchioness of Newcastle
Titled: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Used Form: The Lady M. of Newcastle
Used Form: The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle
Used Form: The Lady Margaret Countesse of Newcastle
Used Form: The Lady Newcastle
Margaret Cavendish, who was by marriage a great lady, wrote in the seventeenth century primarily to please herself and her husband, who was an enthusiast for her writing; they took pleasure in her publishing as well as her writing. Her works (scientific speculations, poems, plays, speeches, biography and autobiography) were issued in handsome folio volumes, with her name and some honorific description, primarily for presentation more than for sale. Two women printers published works by her.
Bell, Maureen. A Dictionary of Women in the London Book Trade, 1540-1730. Loughborough University of Technology.
Oval miniature portrait of Margaret Cavendish, head and shoulders, in a gold frame. She wears a dark blue gown with pearl necklace and earrings. Her dark, curly hair is mostly loose.

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Author summary Susan Du Verger
SDV published between 1639 and 1653 two translations of fiction (the first a collection of early novels or romances) and an unusual critique of a work by Margaret Cavendish, then Marchioness of Newcastle .
Literary...
Textual Features Susan Du Verger
An epistle dedicatory to Cavendish explains that the writer just happened upon a copy of this delicious and exquisite book
Du Verger, Susan. Du Vergers Humble Reflections.
prelims
and devoured it (continuing Cavendish's own metaphor) with the utmost delight, particularly because it...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
Their stepmother from 1645 was Margaret Cavendish . She is now famous for her unusual range of knowledge and for her writings, which unlike the other women of the family she published. But when she...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
The only surviving daughter of ECECB , Elizabeth (later Elizabeth Sidney, Countess of Leicester ), followed in the footsteps of her mother, and of her aunt and godmother Lady Jane Cavendish , in leaving a...
Publishing Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter...
Friends, Associates Anne Finch
AF enjoyed personal friendships with a number of distinguished men, among them Bishop Thomas Ken . She valued female friendship very highly; women friends figure prominently in her poetry. Lady Catherine Jones , to whom...
Family and Intimate relationships Antonia Fraser
All three generations of women are seen combining in the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, given in affectionate memory of the grandmother, and awarded in 2004 by judges Antonia and Flora Fraser (mother and...
Textual Features Germaine Greer
Its nearly fifty poets include Margaret Cavendish , Katherine Philips , and Aphra Behn ; however, the anthology also presents more obscure writers like Diana Primrose , An Collins , Mary Carey , Anna Trapnel
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...
Residence Lady Ottoline Morrell
At this point the child Ottoline Bentinck moved with her immediate family from East Court in Berkshire, a country house without claims to unusual historical or aesthetic interest, to Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Ottoline Morrell
LOM was always especially proud of the fact that the Bentincks were descended, though not actually from the seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish , Duchess of Newcastle (who had no children), at least from the family...
Leisure and Society Lady Ottoline Morrell
Her salon began with entertainments for her husband's political colleagues, but she expanded it to include a remarkable range of guests, especially writers, painters, poets, dancers, and critics. Her at homes on Thursday evenings soon...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho , the patriotic heroism...
Textual Features Ann Oakley
This book covers a great deal of ground. When it turns back from Modern Problems to A Brief History of Methodology its exemplars include Margaret Cavendish (who also provides one of three opening epigraphs), the...

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