Margaret Cavendish

01 January 1623 - 15 December 1673

Standard Name: Cavendish, Margaret

Birth Name: Margaret Lucas

Married Name: Margaret Cavendish

Titled: Margaret Cavendish, Marchioness of Newcastle

Titled: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Used Form: The Lady M. of Newcastle

Used Form: The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle

Used Form: The Lady Margaret Countesse of Newcastle

Used Form: The Lady Newcastle

Margaret Cavendish, who was by marriage a great lady, wrote in the seventeenth century primarily to please herself and her husband, who was an enthusiast for her writing; they took pleasure in her publishing as well as her writing. Her works (scientific speculations, poems, plays, speeches, biography and autobiography) were issued in handsome folio volumes, with her name and some honorific description, primarily for presentation more than for sale. Two women printers published works by her.

Bell, Maureen. A Dictionary of Women in the London Book Trade, 1540-1730. Loughborough University of Technology, 1983.

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Literary responses	Anne Bradstreet	This book appeared in a publisher's catalogue of 1657 listing the most marketable books in England. (The list included all the great male names, from Shakespeare and Donne to Crashaw and Vaughan , but only...
Literary responses	Lady Jane Cavendish	Thomas Lawrence , in his elegy, aspires to inherit LJC 's poetic gift, by seizing her discarded mantle (as Elisha in the Bible did the prophet's mantle of Elijah). In view of recent critical debate...
politics	Dorothy Osborne	Like all her family, DO was a supporter of the Stuart monarchy. As a young woman under the Commonwealth, visiting to the Isle of Wight, she saved one of her brothers from serious trouble...
Author summary	Susan Du Verger	SDV published between 1639 and 1653 two translations of fiction (the first a collection of early novels or romances) and an unusual critique of a work by Margaret Cavendish, then Marchioness of Newcastle . Literary...
Publishing	Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland	The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter...
Reception	Brilliana Lady Harley	After having been long admired for their picture of female heroism in time of need, BLH 's letters are now coming under scrutiny as expressions of domestic Puritan ideology and of the involvement of private...
Reception	Mary Oxlie	This work listed MO as one of its Women among the moderns eminent for poetry. Phillips, nephew and pupil of John Milton , seems quite interested in the existence of women poets. Others in his...
Residence	Lady Ottoline Morrell	At this point the child Ottoline Bentinck moved with her immediate family from East Court in Berkshire, a country house without claims to unusual historical or aesthetic interest, to Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire...
Textual Features	Germaine Greer	Its nearly fifty poets include Margaret Cavendish , Katherine Philips , and Aphra Behn ; however, the anthology also presents more obscure writers like Diana Primrose , An Collins , Mary Carey , Anna Trapnel
Textual Features	Dinah Mulock Craik	Despite her regular invocation of conventional gender roles, DMC , like Felicia Hemans before her, considers alternative views of heroic male effort in poems such as her later The Arctic Exploration: from the Woman's Side...
Textual Features	Anna Letitia Barbauld	These are not narratives, but more like dramatised scenes from a child's daily life, with emphasis on food, play, and other pleasures. The vocabulary is limited, inessentials pared away, and the short sentences, often in...
Textual Features	Susan Du Verger	An epistle dedicatory to Cavendish explains that the writer just happened upon a copy of this delicious and exquisite book Du Verger, Susan. Du Vergers Humble Reflections. 1657. prelims and devoured it (continuing Cavendish's own metaphor) with the utmost delight, particularly because it...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger	EOB writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld for praising Elizabeth Rowe . She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington is the real author of...
Textual Features	Frances Boothby	FB uses both prose and blank verse (not especially skilful), with couplets for high points. The stage management can appear clumsy, with a touch of the wilful point-making that distinguishes Margaret Cavendish 's theatre for...
Textual Features	Ann Oakley	This book covers a great deal of ground. When it turns back from Modern Problems to A Brief History of Methodology its exemplars include Margaret Cavendish (who also provides one of three opening epigraphs), the...

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