This biography is the first full-length study entirely devoted to the Duchess of Newcastle showing her metamorphosis from an imaginative, bashful

"Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Mar

"Aphra Behn (1640-1689) and Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) were two of the boldest women authors of seventeenthcentury England. They made gesture

"Reassesses the literary invention of Margaret Cavendish -- the use she makes of other writers, her own various forms of writing, and the ways in

"For a seventeenth-century Englishwoman, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, did the unthinkable - she dared to publish and to live proudly

Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading think

"This book considers how writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia

John Rogers addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable, if improbable, alliance between science and politics in sevent

A portrait of a 17-century nobleman, his household, and the dramatic decades surrounding the English Civil War. William Cavendish, courageous and