William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

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...

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...

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...

Margaret Lucas , in Paris, married the exiled monarchist commander William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle , a wealthy widower thirty years older than herself.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...