Cavendish, Margaret - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Haynes, Alan, " 'The First Great Lady': Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle." History Today XXVI, No. 11 (November 1976): 724-33.
Biographical discussion of Cavendish focusing on her life and literary career.
Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. London: Bloomsbury, 1988, 192 p.
Extensive literary biography that praises Cavendish as a pioneer of the female literary tradition in the seventeenth century.
Criticism
Fitzmaurice, James. "Fancy and the Family: Self-characterizations of Margaret Cavendish." The Huntington Library Quarterly 53, No. 3 (Summer 1990): 199-209.
Examines Cavendish's conflicting self-portrayals, and attributes them to the necessity for a publishing woman writer in the seventeenth century to justify herself within traditionally...
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