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	The Life of Margaret Cavendish
		Margaret and her sisters also learned needle-work, singing, dancing, and were taught to play the lute and virginal (an early form of the spinet).
		Margaret Lucas fled to Oxford with her sisters and their husbands, where Charles I and his court were in exile, and Margaret became a maid-of-honour to Queen Henrietta Maria.
		Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle died suddenly on 15 December 1673 at the age of fifty.
	www.luminarium.org /sevenlit/cavendish/cavendishbio.htm (755 words)

	Margaret Cavendish
		Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) was a famous member of the family of the Dukes of Newcastle.
		As a philosopher, Margaret Cavendish rejected the Aristotelianism[?] of the 17th century, with its picture of nature as a great machine, and the views of Thomas Hobbes, Descartes, Boyle and members of the Royal Society of London.
		There is a Margaret Cavendish Society at the University of Dundee[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Margaret_Cavendish.html (149 words)

	Cavendish, Margaret Criticism and Essays
		Cavendish spent the last years of her life revising her previous works and publishing final versions of her philosophical and literary texts before her death in 1673.
		In her narrative poems and plays, however, Cavendish is more ambiguous in her representations, placing strong intelligent women next to quiet retiring heroines, and undermining her proto-feminist critique of the institution of marriage by employing the trope of marriage at the end of a number of her plays.
		Samuel Pepys's judgment of Cavendish as a "mad, conceited, ridiculous woman" whose husband was "an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him" is characteristic of the criticism of her contemporaries.
	www.enotes.com /literary-criticism/cavendish-margaret (889 words)

	Margaret Cavendish
		Margaret Cavendish was born in 1623 (she died at the age of 50 in 1673).
		Margaret Cavendish, her immensely whimsical and idiotic literary talent aside, was also known for her eccentric way of dressing and general appearance (she represented herself figuratively as a hermaphrodite).
		Margaret Cavendish is the author of moral tales, speculative fictions, romances, scientific treatises, letters, poems, orations, closet drama, an autobiography and a biography of her husband.
	gala.univ-perp.fr /~dgirard/licence3et1-2.html (3630 words)

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		Cavendish dramatizes the act of writing, foregrounding the unreliability of authority and interpretation to the extent that her texts deny their own content; they present themselves as mere markers of a desire to write that reflects no stable point of view.
		Cavendish's revised philosophy puts forth the same theory of destabilizable order and authority, simply offering new terminology to suggest her philosophy is more orthodox than it is. It offers little reassurance to those who wish to believe in a stable and permanent cosmic order.
		Cavendish presented her mind and her writing as a demonstration of the potential for disorder she saw in the social and natural universe.
	www.geocities.com /hargrange/cavendishstevenson.html (5149 words)

	Margaret Lucas Cavendish (1623-73)
		Margaret Lucas, the youngest and eighth child of Sir Thomas Lucas is born near Colchester, England.
		In her autobiography, Margaret writes that she dreaded marriage and only married Cavendish because he was a worthy man, full of wit, and respectful towards her.
		Cavendish continues to argue for the dignity and rationality of animals and man's lack of superiority in nature's hierarchy.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/cavendish.html (658 words)

	MARGARET CAVENDISH
		Margaret also believed that atoms were closely related to health, and this could be what stemmed her scientific interest in medecine.
		Margaret often treated herself for her ailments, and this self-doctoring may have led to her sudden death.
		Margaret is well known in the scientific world, not only for her many contributions to the field, but also for being the first woman to visit the Royal Society in London.
	mcavendish.tripod.com /WEBPAGE4science.html (302 words)

	Margaret Cavendish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-15 December 1673), was an English aristocrat and a prolific writer.
		Cavendish was a poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright and, some say, a tireless self-publicist.
		As a natural philosopher, Margaret Cavendish rejected the Aristotelianism and mechanical philosophy of the seventeenth century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Cavendish (4561 words)

	Margaret Cavendish
		It is almost impossible for one to write an objective biography of Margaret Cavendish, without the author's opinion of Cavendish as a person and as a writer coloring the events of her life.
		She argues Cavendish's historical significance based on the same characteristics that have caused most scholars to ignore her, such as her lack of method, embracing of contradictions, and her eccentricity.
		The section on Margaret Cavendish covers her family and education, courtship and marriage, her "feminine critique of marriage," her vocation as a writer, and her life in exile.
	ils.unc.edu /~wootk/writers/mcbio.htm (329 words)

	Margaret Cavendish - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Margaret Lucas Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73), was the youngest and minimally educated child of a wealthy Essex family.
		Between 1653 and 1668 Margaret Cavendish published a dozen substantial books including poetry, moral tales, speculative fiction, romance, scientific treatises, natural philosophy, familiar letters, closet drama, orations, an autobiographical memoir and a biography of her husband.
		Through her generically experimental and diverse writings, Margaret Cavendish emerges as an ironically self-designated spectacle, and as the self-proclaimed producer of hybrid creation and inimitable discourses, which are finally beginning to receive the attention that her life has rarely lacked.
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	Margaret Cavendish Summary
		Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was a prolific writer who worked in many genres, including poetry, fiction, drama, letters, biography, science, and even science fiction.
		Cavendish, Margaret(1623?–1673) Margaret Cavendish was born into the Lucasses, a family of English gentry.
		Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle(1623- 15 December 1673), was an English aristocrat and a prolific writer.Born Margaret Lucas, she was the youngest sister of prominent Royalists, Sir John Lucas and Sir Charles Lucas.
	www.bookrags.com /Margaret_Cavendish (430 words)

	Margaret Cavendish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Margaret Cavendish is arguably one of the most controversial figures in the history of women writers.
		Kate Lilly remarks that "Cavendish's works have frequently been interpreted as 'deformed in various ways: chaotic, old-fashioned, uneven, contradictory, and insane.'" Decades of literary criticism have given us a wide variety of perspectives on both her writing career and her life.
		Of Margaret Cavendish, Dorothy Osbourne wrote, "there are many soberer people in Bedlam; I'll swear her friends are much to blame to let her go abroad." Charged with madness, plagarism, and harmful masculinity, it is easy to see why Margaret Cavendish is such a controversial figure.
	www.geocities.com /theblazingworld (229 words)

	MARGARET CAVENDISH
		Margaret stepped out of her expected role as a woman in many ways.
		Margaret wrote about the lack of education available to women, the way they were excluded from the typical "masculine" activities, the oppressive nature of the traditional housewife and mother roles and the negative light in which women of the time were viewed.
		Margaret was able to find a fine balance between wife, writer, scientist, and individual, creating a strong testimony to what a woman with convictions can become.
	mcavendish.tripod.com /WEBPAGE5feminism.html (312 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Paper Bodies
		Margaret Cavendish died in December 1673 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
		Summoning the soul of the Duchess of Newcastle (Margaret) as her scribe, the Empress goes on in the second part of the novel to receive a message from Immaterial Spirits which tells that her home country is under siege by its enemies.
		The many other writings of Margaret Cavendish in Paper Bodies show that if possessed of a very high opinion of herself, she was a remarkable woman who was well ahead of her time in many facets of her thinking and writing.
	www.sfsite.com /02a/pb97.htm (1112 words)

	[EMLS Special Issue 14 (May, 2004):1.1-34 Concocting the world's olio: Margaret Cavendish and continental influence
		Early in her career, Cavendish herself was apt to encourage the solipsistic view of her persona as "authoress." She did so partly because her alleged isolation put a premium on originality, a trait which she singled out as her chief advantage over her scholarly and scientific competitors.
		Cavendish in mid-century France and Flanders was in an analogous position to those young English gentlemen who took the continental Grand Tour to broaden their educational horizons.
		Cavendish was also fascinated by what we might call the "romantic" element in continental monasticism, the ideal of withdrawal from the mundane world to live on a higher plane of being.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /emls/si-14/mendconc.html (6542 words)

	[EMLS Special Issue 14 (May, 2004): 14.1-6] Review of Emma L. E. Rees, Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Genre, Exile.
		Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Genre, Exile joins the dialogue, focusing on one crucial period of the life, the 1650s, and on what has become a major area of investigation, her engagement with genre.
		Cavendish also introduces a shift, but of a different sort, for she relocates the "centre of power form the heart to the head" (147).
		Scholars of Cavendish will welcome this book and will find themselves referring to it as they consider the life and writing of its subject during her period of living on the Continent.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /emls/si-14/fitzrevi.html (837 words)

	The Margaret Cavendish Society Website
		Launched as an international non-profit organisation at the June 1997 Cavendish conference in Oxford (UK), the Margaret Cavendish Society was established to provide a means of communication between scholars worldwide and to increase awareness of Cavendish and her writings.
		Margaret's life of her husband and her own autobiography were published in a thoroughly annotated scholarly edition by CH Firth at the beginning of the twentieth century, and Firth was, for at time, professor of history at the University of Sheffield.
		Firth seems to have helped to establish the legitimacy of Margaret as a biographer and autobiographer, and we hope to have papers on her place in historiography as well as on Firth's interest in her.
	www.marcav.org.uk (485 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Trans-speciation: From Margaret Cavendish to China Miéville
		Margaret Cavendish was a supporter of Monarchy during an era when questions about political authority and the divine right of kings was pretty urgent (I would welcome further comments on Cavendish's politics from those who know more than I).
		About the "defying nature" comment (in re being abducted by a man etc.), one criticism that I came across of Cavendish was that she was conceited and a self-publicist.
		The creatures in Scar, like you said, punished with trans-speciation and adapt themselves to their new condition in Armada (turning a curse into a boon) while in Cavendish's version they are metaphors of a utopia where trans-speciation represents an individual's abilities to fit in a society.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2006/04/trans-speciation-from-margaret.html (1648 words)

	Reading the stage: Margaret Cavendish and Commonwealth closet drama Criticism - Find Articles
		The fact that Cavendish wrote most of her plays in exile during the Commonwealth and that she expressly intended them for private reading rather than public performance has received but cursory notice, usually by way of accounting for her non-professional status.
		In what follows, I will be arguing that this performance bias fails to do Cavendish justice, and, more damaging, that it actually precludes a full assessment of her achievement in dramatic writing.
		But, as Margaret Ezell has recently written, this bias in favor of market-oriented writing has been imposed anachronistically on the early modern period by feminist literary historians who work primarily on nineteenth-century novelists and whose chief analytical category is evolutionary progress.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2220/is_n3_v37/ai_17491986 (375 words)

	Amazon.ca: Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings: Books: Margaret Cavendish,Susan James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		by Margaret Cavendish (Author), Susan James (Editor) "If you wonder, that I join a work of fancy to my serious philosophical contemplations; think not that it is out of a disparagement to..." (more)
		Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) is unique among women writers of the seventeenth century in the scale of her output and in her aspiration to create a philosophical system.
		This edition presents Cavendish as a political author, and Susan James includes two major texts, the Orations and The Blazing World, accompanied by the standard series features that enables students to gain a better understanding of one of the truly distinctive political voices of the early modern period.
	www.amazon.ca /Margaret-Cavendish-Political-Writings/dp/0521633494 (346 words)

	Science Grrl Tribute to Margaret Cavendish
		Margaret was educated by women tutors, but she learned very little about science or mathematics.
		Margaret was not that eager to give up her single life, though.
		Nevertheless, Margaret uses the poetic conceit of needlepoint to describe her theory of solar attraction.
	www.hypatiamaze.org /cavendish/scicav.html (644 words)

	Cavendish Bibliography
		March 2006: Romack, Katherine and James Fitzmaurice, editors, Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections, Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2006.
		"Margaret Cavendish, Scribe." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 10:3 (2004), pp.
		"Margaret Cavendish and the Landscapes of a Woman's Life," in Mapping the Self: Space, Identity, Discourse in British Auto/Biography, eds., Frédéric Regard and Geoffrey Wall, Saint-Etienne, France: Université de Saint-Etienne, 2003, pp.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jbf/CavBiblio.html (968 words)

	No. 392: Margaret Cavendish
		argaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, was born in 1623, just as a great scientific change was taking place.
		Cavendish wanted fame - she made no bones about that.
		Margaret Cavendish was neither one of the great thinkers nor one of the great revolutionaries.
	www.uh.edu /admin/engines/epi392.htm (450 words)

	Chapter Four: Binaries, Calculus, and the Troubling Female Monad: Newton/Leibniz – Margaret Cavendish
		Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World is treated in relation to her natural philosophical treatise, and both are examined as self-conscious inquiries and satires on the intertextuality of romance and chemistry (both narratives being dependent upon the trajectory of the ‘particle’ or individual within generic constraints).
		23 Such commentaries are a manifestation of the gendered disciplinary divisions prophesied in Cavendish’s Blazing World: a world were women can intermingle with a masculinist public sphere only if they leave behind their former embodied perspectives and insinuate themselves into the fiction of the abstract ‘eye’; that ethereal realm of platonic, like-minded and disembodied souls.
		She deploys her own generic system for decoding the ideologies of science and romance as equation-dependent narrative trajectories that trace the “movement between a subject and object of desire, advanced by anticipation of result.”
	www.ags.uci.edu /~jeboyle/chapterfour.html (769 words)

	Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 - 1673)
		A Royalist during English Civil War, Margaret Lucas was Maid of Honor to Queen Henrietta Maria from 1643 to 1645.
		Happily married by all accounts to an emotionally and financially supportive husband, Newcastle nonetheless chafed at the educational and professional opportunities available to women and railed against the unequal power in domestic relations.
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	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/march99/cavndsh.html (581 words)

	--Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, from The Blazing World
		Her flamboyantly unconventional dress and 'hobbies' were indulged by her husband, a Royalist nobleman who went into exile during the Cromwell period and later became one of Charles II's counselors.
		} During Cavendish's lifetime, the book was seen as another manifestation of her profound oddness, and its critical reception has not been much better ('evidence of schizophrenia'; 'absolutely unreadable') until the last decade.
		And if any should like the world I have made, and be willing to be my subjects, they may imagine themselves such, and they are such-I mean in their minds, fancies or imaginations.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/debclass/blaze.htm (2767 words)

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