Margaret Cavendish: Sociable Letters

by Margaret Cavendish and James Fitzmaurice

Book Overview

Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), Duchess of Newcastle and one of the best-known women writers of the her time, is enjoying a revival in the wake of Aphra Behn's canonization: She appears in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, her poetry will appear in a new edition, and Penguin has recently reprinted her science-fiction novel The Blazing World . This is an edition of her hilarious and rowdy letters, unavailable since their original publication...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815324510
• ISBN13: 9780815324515
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"