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Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish was an English writer, philosopher, and scientist during the seventeenth century. Born Margaret Lucas, she became an attendant to Queen Henrietta Maria (wife of Charles I) and followed her to exile in France during the English Civil Wars. In 1645, she married William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Cavendish and her husband had a famously mutual relationship for the time period. He supported her writing and defended her when rumors began to circulate that he was...

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Margaret Cavendish Essays

Margaret Cavendish's "An Excuse for So Much Writ upon my Verses": The Anxieties of a Female Poet among Sexist Readers Mousrisha Roy College

Poems and Fancies

The poem “An Excuse for So Much Writ upon my Verses” was written not simply as a lyric poem but as a conclusion to the long prefatory materials of Margaret Cavendish's book Poems and Fancies. As she was also a philosopher, Cavendish had a very...