[PPX 1.05] Chapter 5 Of Motion[1] As there is but one only matter, so there is but one only motion, which is the only moving part of only matter, but as there are several degrees and several parts in only matter, so there are several degrees and several changes in only motion. But to… Continue Reading Philosophical and Physical Opinions
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… Continue Reading Locating Margaret Cavendish’s Books: Database, Map, and Analysis
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)
PHILOSOPHICALL FANCIES. WRITTEN By the Right Honourable, THE LADY NEWCASTLE. LONDON, Printed by Tho: Roycroft, for J. Martin, and J. Allestrye, at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1653. A Dedication to FAME. To thee, great Fame, I dedicate this Peece. Though I am no Philosopher of Greece; Yet do not thou my workes of… Continue Reading Philosophical Fancies (1653)
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)
Act I. Scene I. [Enter Three Gentlemen.] First GentlemanTom, Where have you been, you look so sadly of it? 2 GentI have been at the Funeral of the Lord Fortunate; who has left his Daugther, the Lady Happy, very rich having no other Daugther but her. 1 Gent If she be so rich, it will… Continue Reading The Convent of Pleasure
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)… Continue Reading Visualizing Margaret Cavendish’s Systematic Treatises
Originally posted on June 22, 2013 and cross-posted here from Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (please check out their project site to learn more about their work on early modern social network analysis) Guest post by Shawn W. Moore The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (SDFB) team is delighted to introduce here the first in… Continue Reading Networks as Constructs: The Curious Case of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-1673)