Margaret Lucas Cavendish’s Blazing World
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The Early Life of Margaret Lucas Cavendish
This chapter explores the formative years of Margaret Lucas, later the Duchess of Newcastle, highlighting her affluent family background and the complexities of her early education and interests. It further delves into her family's royalist beliefs during the English Civil Wars and her personal struggles with shyness as she navigates court life and societal expectations.
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Cavendish was a prolific poet, playwright, and natural philosopher. She published multiple works under her own name before that was common for a woman, and she published at least five major works on natural philosophy.
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