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Mad Madge : the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the first woman to l...

Mad Madge : the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendis...

Mad Madge : the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the first woman to l...

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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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Full title

Mad Madge : the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the first woman to live by her pen / Katie Whitaker.

Author / Creator

Publisher

New York : Basic Books, c2002.

Call Numbers

N828.409/1

Record Identifier

74Vv07Ox5PAl

MMS ID

991015763779702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

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...

Publication information

Publisher

New York : Basic Books, c2002.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

c2002.

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Scope and Contents

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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Full title

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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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-406) and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c2002.

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Call Numbers

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

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