William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

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...

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...

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...

Lady Jane's father, William Cavendish (later Duke of Newcastle) , was a grandson of Bess of Hardwick , and was from his youth a courtier and a horseman of exceptional skill. He...

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...

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...

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

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...