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Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish. Ed. by LINE COTTEGNIES and NANCY WEITZ. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 238 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3983-6.
Until recently, Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was regarded as a bizarre eccentric, churning out unactable plays and other self-contradictory, unstructured, and uneducated literary and scientific works in blissful ignorance of literary conventions and the laws of science. Mary Evelyn thought her as 'rambling as her books', Charles Lamb loved her eccentricity but also saw...
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