From late 1642 the Earl of Newcastle
was seldom at home, increasingly involved in military action (though he stayed at Welbeck with a body of troops from December 1643 to mid-January 1644 both to refresh...
Textual Features
Margaret Cavendish
This is a formal and in many ways old-world celebration, though MC
's irrepressible personality comes through here and there. The title relays the Duke of Newcastle's various honours and peerages. Dedications to the king
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...
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.
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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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jean Plaidy
Lucy Worsley
, Chief Curator of Historical Royal Palaces, said in 2010 that her career path had been set by reading The Young Elizabeth (with a picture of Hampton Court on its cover) when she...