Pure wit the revolutionary life of Margaret Cavendish

"Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford. With the rest of the court she went into self-imposed exile in France. Her family's wealth and lands were...

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Main Author: Peacock, Francesca (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2024.
Edition:First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the empress and authoress of a whole world
  • The monstrous regiment of women
  • This unnatural war came like a whirlwind
  • Generalissimas and she-soldiers
  • On sorrow's billows this ship was tossed
  • It is hard to get children with good courage
  • A sumptuous banquet for the brain
  • The first English poet of your sex
  • We women are miserable
  • I have been asleep sixteen years
  • Women's kisses are unnatural
  • The thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent Princess of Philosophy
  • The Duchess of Newcastle is all the subject now discoursed on
  • What will survive of us is books
  • Doubt of an after being
  • Appendix 1. Works by Margaret Cavendish
  • Appendix 2. Other abbreviated works
  • Appendix 3. Abbreviations.