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Resources for the study of English writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673).

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Sunshine for Women: Margaret Lucas Cavendish A brief biographical profile and introduction to Cavendish's work. www.pinn.net/~sunshine/march99/cavndsh.html

Margaret Cavendish Bibliography Compiled by James Fitzmaurice of Northern Arizona University. jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jbf/CavBiblio.html

Luminarium: Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish Quotes, biography, works, and links. www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/cavendish

Atomic Poems of Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, The From the Emory Women Writers Resource Project. Selection of poems edited and introduced by Leigh Tillman Partington. chaucer.library.emory.edu/../../..

Margaret Cavendish Bibliography Compiled by Ron Cooley of the University of Saskatchewan. www.usask.ca/english/phoenix/cavendishbib.htm

Women's Writing (Journal): Special Issue on Cavendish "This journal constitutes the very first collection of critical essays on Margaret Cavendish." Full-text articles are available in Adobe PDF format. www.triangle.co.uk/wow/content/pdfs/4/issue4_3.asp

The Margaret Cavendish Society Website A network of scholars that study Cavendish, her works, and her 17th-century contexts. nsweb.9p.org.uk/marcav

Norton Anthology of English Literature Very short biography, text of her poem, "A World in an Eare-Ring," image of frontispiece to Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655), and an online quiz. www.wwnorton.com/nael/18century/topic_3/cavendish.htm

Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle Excerpt from Cavendish's "The Blazing World," and a brief history of the text. social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/blaze.htm

Essay on Margaret Cavendish "'Thus by the Musick of a Ladyes Tongue': Margaret Cavendish's dramatic innovations in women's education," by Annette Kramer. www.nd.edu/~dharley/HistIdeas/texts/Kramer-Caveducation.pdf

Margaret Cavendish Book Extract From "Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Royalist, Writer and Romantic," by Katie Whitaker. www.randomhouse.co.uk/../..

Romancing Multiplicity: Female Subjectivity and the Body Divisible in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World Geraldine Wagner argues that Cavendish "considered textuality a means to subjectivity: one in which there is . . . no sovereign head, but many multi-bodied, competing loci of potential agency." www.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-1/wagnblaz.htm

Book Review Carrie Hintz reviews Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind, by Anna Battigelli. www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-3/hintzrev.htm

Book Reviews Bernadette Andrea reviews Sociable Letters and The Convent of Pleasure, Ed. James Fitzmaurice; The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays, Ed. Anne Shaver. www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/andrearev.htm

Poems from Poems and Fancies Selected works from her 1653 edition. www.usask.ca/english/phoenix/cavendishlist.htm