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Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings

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Edited by Susan James, Birkbeck College, University of London
Published 2003

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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published a wide variety of works including poems, plays, letters and treatises of natural philosophy, but her significance as a political writer has only recently been recognised. This major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts includes the first ever modern edition of her Divers Orations on English social and political life, together with a new student-friendly rendition of her imaginary voyage, A New World called the Blazing World. Susan James explains the allusions made…

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  • A major addition to this well-known series, this book features texts by an extraordinary figure in the history of ideas
  • The editor, Susan James, is one of the world's leading authorities on early modern and feminist philosophy
  • All the student-friendly series features will be useful for the many courses on women's writing where Cavendish is studied

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