TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Kathleen
TI  - A glorious fame: : the life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673
SN  - 0747505675
U1  - 828.409 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish,
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Biography
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -