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Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a
dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and
the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her
into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to
Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously,
responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the
mid-seventeenth century. Cavendish published twenty-three volumes
in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters,
biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the
political, scientific, and philosophical ideas of her day. While
previous biographers of Cavendish have focused almost exclusively
on her eccentric public behavior, Anna Battigelli is the first to
explore in depth her intellectual life. She dismisses the myth of
Cavendish as an isolated and lonely thinker, arguing that the role
of exile was a rhetorical stance, one that allowed Cavendish to
address and even criticize her world. She, like others writing
during the period after the English civil wars, focused squarely on
the problem of finding the proper relationship between mind and
world. This volume presents Cavendish's writing self, the self she
treasured above all others.
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