English Literature / Unit 8 ENL 0712 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Margaret Cavendish
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The idea
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published in many genres: poems, essays, autobiography, natural philosophy, drama, and The Blazing World, an early utopian fiction. Some contemporaries called her eccentric; others admired her. She visited the Royal Society.
In practice
A duchess writing in every genre.
Where people slip
She is a self-conscious female author.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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