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Margaret Cavendish's life as a writer and noblewoman unfolded against the backdrop of the 17th Century English Civil War and Restoration.
Pursuing the only career open to women of her class, she became a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Henrietta Maria. Exiled to Paris with the Queen, she met and married William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle. Once there, Margaret did something unthinkable for an Englishwoman in the 1600s: she became an author in her own right.
Margaret published twenty-three volumes in all, starting with Poems and Fancies, the first book of English poetry published by a woman under her own name. Among her better-known scientific and philosophical writing is also a science fiction novel, Blazing World, another indication she lived ahead of her time. Her critics were shocked, labeling her "Mad Madge of Newcastle" in an effort to taint her reputation for future generations.
Mad Madge is a satisfying, well-researched biography of a fascinating woman and a glimpse back in time to the cultural challenges of female writers.
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Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, royalist, writer and romantic
2003, Chatto & Windus
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Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the First Woman to Live by Her Pen
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Mad Madge: the extraordinary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the first woman to live by her pen
2002, Basic Books
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