Mad Madge (Paperback, New edition)

Margaret Cavendish's life as a writer and noblewoman unfolded against the backdrop of the English Civil War and Restoration. Pursuing the only career open to women of her class, she became a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Henrietta Maria. Exiled to Paris with the Queen, she met and married William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle. In exile, Margaret did something unthinkable for a seventeenth-century Englishwoman: she lived proudly as a writer. Eventually she published twenty-three volumes, starting with "Poems and Fancies," the first book of English poetry published by a woman under her own name. But later generations too easily accepted the disparaging opinions of her shocked critics, and labeled her "Mad Madge of Newcastle.""Mad Madge" is both a lively biography of a fascinating woman and a window on a tumultuous cultural time.

General

Imprint:	BasicBooks
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2003
First published:	August 2003
Authors:	Katie Whitaker
Dimensions:	228 x 157 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	456
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-465-09164-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-465-09164-4
Barcode:	9780465091645

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