Locating Margaret Cavendish's Books: Database, Map, and Analysis

Nov 14, 2018Shawn MooreUncategorizedBook History, Collections, Library, Liza Blake, Margaret Cavendish, Visualization

Locating Margaret Cavendish’s Books: Database, Map, and Analysis by Liza Blake, University of Toronto Where in the world is Margaret Cavendish? This post is intended to provide, as a publicly and freely available research resource, the following Excel spreadsheet, which gives the locations of every surviving copy of Margaret Cavendish’s work published 1675 or earlier.… Continue Reading Locating Margaret Cavendish’s Books: Database, Map, and Analysis

Nov 14, 2018Shawn MooreReading EditionMargaret Cavendish, Reading Edition, Sociable Letters

CCXI. SOCIABLE LETTERS, WRITTEN BY THE THRICE NOBLE, ILLUSTRIOUS, AND EXCELLENT PRINCESS, THE LADY MARCHIONESS OF NEWCASTLE. LONDON. Printed by William Wilson, _Anno Dom. _ M. DC. LXIV. TO THE LADY MARCHIONESS OF NEWCASTLE, On her Book of EPISTLES. When all Epistlers you have read, and seek, Who writ in Latin, English, French, or Greek, Such Woful… Continue Reading CCXI Sociable Letters (1664) – Reading Edition

Feb 12, 2018Shawn MooreReading EditionMargaret Cavendish, Playes, Reading Edition

Frontispiece from Plays, Never before Printed (1668) PLAYES Written by the Thrice NOBLE, ILLUSTRIOUS AND Excellent Princess, THE LADY MARCHIONESS OF NEWCASTLE LONDON, Printed by A. Warren, for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Tho. Dicas, at the Bell in Saint Paul’s Church Yard, 1662. THE DEDICATION. To those that do delight in Scenes and wit,… Continue Reading Playes (1662) – Reading Edition

Jul 4, 2017Shawn MooreReading EditionConvent of Pleasure, Margaret Cavendish, Never before Printed, Plays, The Convent of Pleasure

Introductory NoteMargaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure is a play that envisions a female utopia. When the play begins we learn that the main character the Lady Happy has just inherited a large sum of money from her father’s death, and the male suitors Monsieurs Take-Pleasure, Advisor, Facile, and Courtly immediately draw up schemes to… Continue Reading The Convent of Pleasure Edited by Liza Blake and Shawn Moore

Jun 22, 2017Jacob TootalianBlog PostLisa Walters, Margaret Cavendish, Visualization

Lisa Walters has noted that, for a long time, “Cavendish perceived all her philosophical treatises not as separate works, but as a continuum of revisions.” Walters rightly makes the case that literary scholars ought to pay more attention to the second edition of Cavendish’s Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1663). While there has been much emphasis on the Philosophical Letters (1664) and Observations… Continue Reading Visualizing Margaret Cavendish’s Systematic Treatises