The writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, are remarkable for their vivid depiction of the mores and mentality of seventeenth-century England. This edition includes all of Cavendish's
The second edition of Cavendish's (1623-773) collection of 211 hilarious and rowdy letters addressed to Madam, first published in 1664 and unavailable since. They open a window into her time with a bl
American scholars of literature explore how Margaret Cavendish (1624-74) drew on but also appropriated the work of Shakespeare (1564-1616) in the 25 or so plays she wrote and published in two volumes
Many would find it difficult to name a woman writer in England before Jane Austen, even though women were writing as early as the time of Chaucer. It was during the seventeenth century, however, that