Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic

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Katie Whitaker

Mad Madge

Name: Mad Madge
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic

Katie Whitaker

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Vintage
05 July 2011

Biography: literary

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Mad Madge designed her own clothes and her coach was black with silver decoration.

As John Evelyn wrote, gentlemen visitors were 'much pleased by the extraordinary fanciful habit, garb and discourse of the Duchess'. Born into an East Anglian royalist family in 1623, young Margaret Lucas went into Court service, accompanying the Queen, Henrietta Maria, to Oxford during the Civil War and sharing her hair-raising escape to France in 1644.

In Paris, she met and married William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle, a great horseman. They lived together in exile for 10 years, as part of the -migr- royalist circle that included aristocrats and the intellectual giants of the day, such as Descartes and Hobbes.

Margaret had always loved poetry and philosophy - and now she became a writer.

Plays, short fiction, fantasies, 'science fiction' and verse, orations, letters, essays, an autobiography and a biography, six philosophical treatises and one utopia -

She made her mark as one of the most determined and prolific of female writers in an age when less than one per cent of published work was by women and society was shocked that she dared to publish under her own name.

By: Katie Whitaker
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 321g
ISBN: 9780099569961
ISBN 10: 0099569965
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 05 July 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katie Whitaker did a Ph. D in the History of Science at Cambridge, where she was awarded the Thirlwall Prize and Medal for the best original research by a young scholar under 30. She has also been a Century Fellow at the University of Chicago where she was awarded an MPhil. She lives in Yorkshire.