Mad Madge : the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the first woman to l...
Mad Madge : the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the first woman to l...
Mad Madge : the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the first woman to live by her pen / Katie Whitaker.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, c2002.
Call Numbers
N828.409/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xv, 416 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. The Lucases of St. John's -- 2. Childhood Ambitions, 1623-1642 -- 3. The Coming of War, 1642 -- 4. A Lady at Court, 1643-1645 -- 5. The Marquess and the Queen, 1645 -- 6. Parisian Wife, 1646-1648 -- 7. Dutch Scholar, 1648-1651 -- 8. Poet and Petitioner, 1651-1653 -- 9. Writer in Exile, 1653-1655...
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, c2002.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2002.
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Summary
"For a seventeenth-century Englishwoman, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, did the unthinkable - she dared to publish and to live proudly as an writer. And despite the scandal her writing life caused, she eventually published twenty-three volumes, ranging from Poems and Fancies, the first book of English poetry published by a woman under he...
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Mad Madge : the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the first woman to live by her pen / Katie Whitaker.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-406) and index.
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c2002.
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N828.409/1
Record Identifier
74Vv07Ox5PAl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv07Ox5PAl
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ISBN
046509161X (alk. paper)
DDC
828.409
MMS ID
991015763779702626
