Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and RomanticChatto & Windus, 2003 - 436 sidor Born into an East Anglian royalist family in 1623, young Margaret Lucas went into Court service, accompanying the Queen, Henrietta Maria, to Oxford during the Civil War and sharing her hair-raising escape to France in 1644. In Paris, she met and married William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle, a great horseman. They lived together in exile for 10 years, as part of the emigre royalist circle that included aristocrats and the intellectual giants of the day, such as Descartes and Hobbes. Margaret had always loved poetry and philosophy and now she became a writer. Plays, short fiction, fantasies, science fiction and verse, orations, letters, essays, an autobiography and a biography, six philosophical treatises and one utopia. She made her mark as one of the most determined and prolific female writers in an age were less than one per cent of published work was by women and society was shocked that she dared to publish under her own name. |
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... political and social elite , led by the Puritan earl of Warwick and his wealthy gentry friends and relatives . The Lucases , looking to London and the court for their identity and ideology , were in a minority when they came home to ...
... political and social elite , led by the Puritan earl of Warwick and his wealthy gentry friends and relatives . The Lucases , looking to London and the court for their identity and ideology , were in a minority when they came home to ...
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... political tension , ordered the army to be disbanded . Thomas finally went to Ireland , where he had already been appointed commissary - general of the horse to the army in January 1640. Here he would soon also take on a leading role in ...
... political tension , ordered the army to be disbanded . Thomas finally went to Ireland , where he had already been appointed commissary - general of the horse to the army in January 1640. Here he would soon also take on a leading role in ...
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... political stability ? Even now , in Paris , Hobbes was embarking on his Leviathan , aiming at a systematic theory of the ideal monarchical government : Margaret would finally be able to read his political views for herself in 1651 ...
... political stability ? Even now , in Paris , Hobbes was embarking on his Leviathan , aiming at a systematic theory of the ideal monarchical government : Margaret would finally be able to read his political views for herself in 1651 ...
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The Lucases of St Johns | 3 |
Childhood Ambitions 16231642 | 15 |
The Coming of War 1642 | 34 |
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