St John's Abbey

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish's father, Sir Thomas Lucas, had his estate at the former abbey of St John's , just outside Colchester in Essex. He died before Margaret was two.
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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Violence Margaret Cavendish
For the first time an anti-royalist mob attacked St John's , just outside Colchester, childhood home of Margaret Lucas (later Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle) .
Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury, 1988.
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Violence Margaret Cavendish
An anti-royalist mob comprehensively looted and vandalised St John's , just outside Colchester, home of the Lucas family (including the future Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle ).
Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury, 1988.
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