A glorious fame : the life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673 / Kathleen Jones
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TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 1990Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits, mapContent type: - text
- stiil image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0747505675
- 828.409
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Payatas Lupang Pangako Branch Reference Section | Women’s Collection | WC 828.409 N536j 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 132643d |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index.
Women breeding up women
The discreet virgin
Lady Travelia
Mistress Bashful
Married poverty
Royal vagrants
Musing on phantasms
In search of a tradition
By a woman writ
Dull manage
Philosophical opinions
Restoration
The virtuoso
Mad Madge
Welbeck's illustrious whore
The wheel of fortune
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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