The reputation of Margaret Cavendish, the subject of Peacock’s debut book, was accustomed to attacks during and well after her lifetime. Her Restoration-era contemporaries deemed her unlearned ...

Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Founder and Artistic Director | Jim Bredeson, Managing Director) today announced an online benefit reading of Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure ...

Who’s afraid of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle? Virginia Woolf was. In “A Room of One’s Own,” Woolf compared Cavendish, a 17th-century philosopher, poet and scientist, to a giant ...

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish Francesca Peacock. Pegasus, $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-63936-603-3 ...

Margaret Cavendish. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: Poems and Fancies with The Animal Parliament. Ed. Brandie R. Siegfried. Toronto: Iter, 2018. xx+462 pp. $59.95 pbk. Of the commonly noted ...

Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Authorizing Early Modern European Women 6. Archival Bodies, Novel Interpretations, and the Burden of Margaret Cavendish: [Margaret Cavendish ...

Cavendish was a 17th-century English aristocrat, and a trailblazer: She was a scientist, a prolific playwright, ... Margaret makes her way through all manner of locations, ...

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Mary Purcell’s research focuses on Margaret Cavendish, a 17th-century writer and philosopher who published more than a dozen works at a time when ...

Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Authorizing Early Modern European Women 14. Writing, Acting, and the Notion of Truth in Biofiction About Early Modern Women Authors: [Aphra Behn ...

Carlson Young plays a young woman who enters an alternate universe in her directorial debut, 'The Blazing World,' also featuring Udo Kier, Dermot Mulroney and Vinessa Shaw.