The Blazing World and Other Writings

By Margaret Cavendish Duchess Of Newcastle

The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure tha...

Margaret Cavendish

By Margaret Cavendish Duchess Of Newcastle

"Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published a wide variety of works including poems, plays, letters, and treatises of natural philosophy, but her significance as a political writer has onl...

Margaret Cavendish

By Margaret Cavendish Duchess Of Newcastle

Margaret Cavendish

By Margaret Cavendish Duchess Of Newcastle

Margaret Cavendish: Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy

By Eileen O’Neill, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Margaret Cavendish Newcastle

Margaret Cavendish's 1668 edition of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, presented here in its first modern edition, holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the...

The Convent of Pleasure

By Sharon L. Jansen, Margaret Cavendish

"The Convent Of Pleasure" And Other Plays

By Anne Shaver, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Margaret Cavendish Newcastle

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and origin...

Poems and fancies written by the Right Honourable the Lady Margaret Newcastle. 1653

By Margaret Cavendish

Assaulted And Pursued Chastity

By Margaret Cavendish Duchess Of Newcastle

The Description Of A New World Called The Blazing World

By Margaret Cavendish Duchess Of Newcastle