Cavendish, Margaret 17th Century British World Literature

Cavendish, Margaret 17th Century British World Literature

Cavendish, Margaret

Resources for the study of English writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673).

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- From "Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Royalist, Writer and Romantic," by Katie Whitaker.
- Quotes, biography, works, and links.
- Carrie Hintz reviews Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind, by Anna Battigelli.
- A network of scholars that study Cavendish, her works, and her 17th-century contexts.
- "This journal constitutes the very first collection of critical essays on Margaret Cavendish." Full-text articles are available in Adobe PDF format.
- Very short biography, text of her poem, "A World in an Eare-Ring," image of frontispiece to Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655), and an online quiz.
- Bernadette Andrea reviews Sociable Letters and The Convent of Pleasure, Ed. James Fitzmaurice; The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays, Ed. Anne Shaver.
- "'Thus by the Musick of a Ladyes Tongue': Margaret Cavendish's dramatic innovations in women's education," by Annette Kramer.
- Excerpt from Cavendish's "The Blazing World," and a brief history of the text.
- A brief biographical profile and introduction to Cavendish's work.
- From the Emory Women Writers Resource Project. Selection of poems edited and introduced by Leigh Tillman Partington.
- Geraldine Wagner argues that Cavendish "considered textuality a means to subjectivity: one in which there is . . . no sovereign head, but many multi-bodied, competing loci of potential agency."
- Compiled by Ron Cooley of the University of Saskatchewan.
- Selected works from her 1653 edition.

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