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        Called the Blazing World. London: Printed by A. Maxwell. 1666.

---. Grounds of Natural Philosophy. Revised edition. London: Printed by A. Maxwell. 1668.

---. The Life of the Thrice Noble, High and Puissant Prince William Cavedishe, Duke, Marquess,
        and Earl of Newcastle; Earl of Ogle; Viscount Mansfield; and Baron of Bolsover, of Ogle,
        Bothal and Hepple; Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-chamber; one of his Majesties most
        honourable Privy-Councel; Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter; his Majesties
        Lieutenant of the Country and Town of Nottingham; and Justice in Ayre Trent-North: who
        had the honour to be Governour to our most Golrious King, and Gracious Soveraign, in his
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---. Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy. to Which is Added, the Description of a New
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---. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. To which is added, The Description of a new
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Twentieth Century Editions

Cavendish, Margaret Lucas [Duchess of Newcastle]. The Blazing World and Other Writings. Ed
        Kate Lilley. London: Penguin Classics, 1994.

---. The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World and Other Writings. Ed. Kate
        Lilly. New York: New York University Press. 1992.

---. Letters of Margaret Lucas to her Future Husband. Ed. Richard William Goulding. London: J.
        Murray. 1909.

---. The Life of the (1st) Duke of Newcastle and Other Writings. Ed. Ernest Rhys. London: J.M
        Dent, 1916.

---. The Life of William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle: To Which is added the True Relation of
        My Birth, Breeding and Life. Ed. C.H. Firth. London: George Routledge. 19__?

---. The Phanseys of William Cavendish Marquis of Newcstle Addressed to Margaret Lucas and
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Critical Studies

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Blaydes, Sophia B. "Nature Is a Women: The Duchess of Newcastle and Seventeenth Century
        Philosophy." Man, God and Nature in the Enlightenment. Eds. Donald C. Mell Jr.
        et al. East Lansing, MI: Colleagures, 1988. 51-64.

---. "The Poetry of the Duchess of Newcastle: A Pyramid of Praise." The Bulletin of the West
        Virginia Association of College English Teachers 6.1-2 (Spring 1981):26-34.

Bowerbank, Sylvia. "The Spider's Delight: Margaret Cavendish and the 'Female' Imagination."
        English Literary Renaissance 14.3 (Autumn 1984):392-408.

Brown, Sylvia. "Margaret Cavendish: Strategies Rhetorical and Philosophical against the Charge
        of Wantonness: Or Her Excuses for Writing so Much." Critical Matrix: The Princeton
        Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture 6.1 (1991):20-45.

Dash, Irene G. "Single-Sex Retreats in Two Early Modern Dramas: Love's Labor's Lost and the
        Convent of Pleasure." Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (Winter 1996):387-95.

Ferguson, Moira. "A 'Wise, Wittie and Learned Lady': Margaret Lucas Cavendish." Women
        Writers of the Seventeenth Century. Eds. Katharina M. Wilson and Frank J. Warnke.
        Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. 305-318.

Findlay, Sandra and Hobby, Elaine. "Seventeenth Century Women's Autobiography; Proc. of the
        Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature, July 1980." 1642: Literature and Power in
        the Seventeenth Century. Ed. Francis Barker et al. Colchester: Dept. of Literature, University
        of Essex, 1981. 11-36.

Fitzmaurice, James. "Fancy and the Family: Self Characterizations of Margaret Cavendish."
        Huntington Library Quarterly 53.3 (Summer 1990):198-209.

---. "Margaret Cavendish on Her Own Writing: Evidence from Revision and Handmade
        Correction." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 85.3 (September 1991):
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---. "Some Problems in Editing Margaret Cavendish; Papers of Renaissance Text Soc.,
        1985-1991." New Ways of Looking at Old Texts. Ed. W. Speed Hill. Binghamton, NY:
        Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. 253-61.

Fowler, Ellayne. "Margaret Cavendish and the Ideal Commonwealth." Utopian Studies. 7.1
        (1996):38-48.

Gallagher, Catherine. "Embracing the Absolute: The Politics of the Female Subject in
        Seventeenth-Century England." Genders1 (March 1988):24-29.

Gagen, Jean. "Honor and Fame in the Works of the Duchess of Newcastle." Studies in Philology
        56 (1959):519-38.

Grant, Douglas. Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
        1623-1673. London: Hart Davis, 1957.

Hampsten, Elizabeth. "Petticoat Authors: 1660-1720." Women's Studies 7 (1980):21-38.

Hastings, Susan. "Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle." An Encyclopedia of British
        Women Writers. Eds. Paul and June Schlueter. New York & London: Garland, 1988.

Haynes, Alan. "'The First Great Lady': Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle." History Today 26
        (1976):724-33.

Hintz, Carrie. "'But One Opinion': Fear of Dissent in Cavendish's New Blazing World." Utopian
        Studies 7.1 (1996):25-27.

Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of Necessity: English Women's Writing 1649-88. Ann Arbor: University of
        Michigan Press, 1989.

Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
        1623-1673. London: Bloomsbury, 1998.

Kegl, Rosemary. "'The World I Have Made': Margaret Cavendish, Feminism, and the Blazing
        World." Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects. Eds. Valerie Traub
        et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Khanna, Lee Cuulen. "The Subject of Utopia: Margaret Cavendish and Her Blazing World."
        Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference. Eds. Jane L. Donawerth
        et al. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994. 15-34.

Kramer, Annette. "'Thus by the Musick of a Ladyes Tongue': Margaret Cavendish's Dramaticm
        Innovatios in Women's Education." Women's History Review 2.1 (1993):57-80.

Leslie, Marina. "Gender, Genre and the Utopian Body in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World."
        Utopian Studies 7.1 (1996):6-24.

Masten, Jeffrey. Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance
        Drama. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge Univerisity Press, 1997.

Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Amherst: University
        of Massachusetts Press, 1987.

Merrens, Rebecca. "A Nature of "Infinite Sense and Reason': Margaret Cavendish's Natural
        Philosophy and the 'Noise' of a Feminized Nature." Women's Studies 25.5 (1996):421-56.

Mintz, Samuel I. "The Duchess of Newcastle's Visit to the Royal Society." Journal of English
        and Germanic Philology 51 (April 1952):168-76.

Naess, Eli Lindtner. "Mad Madge and Other 'Lost' Women: The Situation of Women Writers in
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Paloma, Dolores. "Margaret Cavendish: Defining the Female Self." Women's Studies 7.1-2
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Partington, Leigh Tillman, and Hamilton, Carroll, eds. The Atomic Poems of Margaret (Lucas)
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Payne, Linda R. "Dramatic Dreamscape: Women's Dreams and Utopian Vision in the Works of
        Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle." Curtain Calls: British and American Women
        and the Theater, 1660-1820. Eds. Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski. Athens:
        Ohio University Press, 1991. 18-33.

Perry, Henry Ten Eyck. The First Duchess of Newcastle and Her Husband as Figures in Literary
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Rogers, John. The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton. Ithaca,
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Rose, Mary Beth. "Gender, Genre and History: Seventeenth-Century English Women and the Art
        of Autobiography." Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Literary and Historical
        Perspectives. Ed. Mary Beth Rose. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986. 245-276.

Rostenberg, Leona. The Library of Robert Hooke. Santa Monica: Modoc, 1989.

Sarasohn, Lisa T. "A Science Turned Upside Down: Feminism and the Natural Philosophy of
        Margaret Cavendish." Huntington Library Quarterly 47.4 (Autumn 1984):289-307.

Sherman, Sandra. "Trembling Texts: Margaret Cavedish and the Dialectic of Authorship." English
        Literary Renaissance 24.1 (Winter 1994):184-210.

Smith, Hilda L. Reason's Disciples: Seventeenth-Century English Feminists. Urbana: University of
        Illinois Press, 1982.

Stevenson, Jay. "The Mechanist-Vitalist Soul of Margaret Cavendish." Studies in English
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Straznicky, Martha. "Reading the Stage: Margaret Cavendish and Commonwealth Closet Drama."
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Todd, Janet. The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction 1660-1800. New York:
        Columbia University Press, 1989.


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