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William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle
Standard Name: Newcastle, William Cavendish,,, Duke of
Used Form: William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle
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Textual Production | Margaret Cavendish | Margaret Cavendish
, Marchioness of Newcastle, included a dedicatory preface to her husband
in CCXI Sociable Letters. |
Textual Production | Margaret Cavendish | Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
, published The Life of . . . William Cavendishe, Duke . . . of Newcastle . . .. Grant, Douglas. Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. 188 |
Textual Production | Lady Jane Cavendish | According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, LJC
gave this date to the apparently earliest-written poem in her (and her sister Lady Elizabeth Brackley
's) manuscript collections which were transcribed by her father |
Textual Production | Lady Jane Cavendish | While his master was away in exile abroad, the Marquess of Newcastle
's secretary, John Rolleston
, made at least two presentation copies for him of a collection of poetry by LJC
(and her sister... |
Textual Production | Margaret Cavendish | Her prefatory address To the Readers explains the kind of reading performance she envisaged for her plays, and acknowledges her husband
's contribution of certain scenes, which she says she has marked to avoid misleading... |
Textual Production | Margaret Cavendish | When a comedy by MC
's husband the Duke of Newcastle, The Humorous Lovers, was acted in 1667, many of the audience (including Samuel Pepys
and Aphra Behn
's lover Jeffrey Boys
) supposed... |
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... |
Travel | Margaret Cavendish | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-37. 36 |
Wealth and Poverty | Margaret Cavendish | Booth confessed that an anonymous accusation of her adultery, received by Margaret Cavendish's husband
on 3 November 1670, had in fact been forged by a steward. The duke's two surviving children, Henry and Frances, were... |
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