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

By:

Jones, Kathleen [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 1990Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits, mapContent type:

text
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Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0747505675

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

828.409

Contents:

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

Summary: 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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Payatas Lupang Pangako Branch Reference Section	Women’s Collection	WC 828.409 N536j 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	132643d

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index.