Margaret Cavendish

01 January 1623 - 15 December 1673

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.

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Textual Features	Lady Jane Cavendish	A specific crux in criticism of The Concealed Fansyes has been the question of whether Lady Tranquillity is a portrait of Margaret Cavendish . This question is bound up with that of date: William Cavendish...
Literary responses	Lady Jane Cavendish	Thomas Lawrence , in his elegy, aspires to inherit LJC 's poetic gift, by seizing her discarded mantle (as Elisha in the Bible did the prophet's mantle of Elijah). In view of recent critical debate...
Reception	Brilliana, Lady Harley	After having been long admired for their picture of female heroism in time of need, BLH 's letters are now coming under scrutiny as expressions of domestic Puritan ideology and of the involvement of private...
Literary responses	Anne Bradstreet	This book appeared in a publisher's catalogue of 1657 listing the most marketable books in England. (The list included all the great male names, from Shakespeare and Donne to Crashaw and Vaughan , but only...
Textual Features	Frances Boothby	FB uses both prose and blank verse (not especially skilful), with couplets for high points. The stage management can appear clumsy, with a touch of the wilful point-making that distinguishes Margaret Cavendish 's theatre for...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger	EOB writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld for praising Elizabeth Rowe . She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington is the real author of...
Textual Production	Aphra Behn	The essay is reprinted by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson , editors of Margaret Cavendish , among contextual material relevant to Cavendish's interests, as a woman's promotion of women's right of access to the new science. Cavendish, Margaret. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Editors Bowerbank, Sylvia and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview. 314-27
Textual Features	Anna Letitia Barbauld	These are not narratives, but more like dramatised scenes from a child's daily life, with emphasis on food, play, and other pleasures. The vocabulary is limited, inessentials pared away, and the short sentences, often in...
Family and Intimate relationships	W. H. Auden	Nicholas Jenkins of Stanford University formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a...
Family and Intimate relationships	Penelope Aubin	PA 's maternal grandfather was the writer and scientist Walter Charleton , personal physician to Margaret Cavendish . Welham, Debbie. “Library and Early Women’s Writing. Women Writers. Penelope Aubin (1679 1738)”. Chawton House Library.
Textual Production	Naomi Alderman	NA writes frequently in the Guardian. For instance, in an article on the televising of Margaret Atwood 's The Handmaid's Tale she provides a sketch of utopian and dystopian fiction by women, from Margaret Cavendish

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