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A glorious fame : the life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673

Jones, Kathleen

Margaret Cavendish was the first English woman to write specifically for publication and to consider herself primarily a writer. She had little formal education but wrote stories, poems, essays, "fancies", scientific and philosophical treatises and was the forerunner of writers such as Aphra Behn.

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    0747505675
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    Paperback edition
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    192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits, map
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index.
  • Content
    • Women breeding up women
    • The discreet virgin
    • Lady Travelia
    • Mistress Bashful
    • Married poverty