Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-37.
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William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle
Standard Name: Newcastle, William Cavendish,,, Duke of
Used Form: William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Margaret Cavendish | Margaret Cavendish
's husband was created Duke of Newcastle
in recognition of his services to the crown. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols. 9: 524 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Jane Cavendish | Lady Jane's father, William Cavendish (later Duke of Newcastle)
, was a grandson of Bess of Hardwick
, and was from his youth a courtier and a horseman of exceptional skill. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Cavendish |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Jane Cavendish | From late 1642 the Earl of Newcastle
was seldom at home, increasingly involved in military action (though he stayed at Welbeck with a body of troops from December 1643 to mid-January 1644 both to refresh... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Cavendish | Margaret Lucas
, in Paris, married the exiled monarchist commander William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle
, a wealthy widower thirty years older than herself. Marquess is the correct form of this British title. It... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater | Elizabeth Cavendish's father, William Cavendish, Viscount Mansfield (later Duke of Newcastle)
, was a grandson of the almost legendary Bess of Hardwick
. He is remembered as a horsemaster, a patron of literature and the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Jane Cavendish | |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Cavendish | John Evelyn
, as a member of the Royal Society
, several times visited the Duke
and Duchess of Newcastle
(sometimes with his wife
) to arrange their visit to the Society. Cavendish, Margaret. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Editors Bowerbank, Sylvia and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000. 91 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Plaidy | Lucy Worsley
, Chief Curator of Historical Royal Palaces, said in 2010 that her career path had been set by reading The Young Elizabeth (with a picture of Hampton Court on its cover) when she... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Jane Cavendish | At some date probably in the later 1630s (since a child born in 1630 was old enough to take part), the Earl of Newcastle
addressed to each of his children (Jane, Charles, Bess, Franke... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lucy Hutchinson | LH
wrote so that her children might learn about their father's life; she was also mindful of her husband's dying injunction to her to shew her selfe in this occasion a good christian, and above... |
| Other Life Event | Margaret Cavendish | Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
, on a rare visit to London with her husband
, was entertained by the Royal Society
as a distinguished visitor. Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury, 1988. 162 |
| politics | Lady Jane Cavendish | LJC
failed in her persistent efforts during the Interregnum to secure a pardon for her father
, but she succeeded in making it possible for both her brothers to return to England. She managed to... |
| Residence | Margaret Cavendish | After months in Rotterdam hoping vainly for an invasion of England, Margaret Cavendish
(then Marchioness of Newcastle) and her husband
settled in the Rubenshuis in Antwerp, previously the house of Rubens
the painter. Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury, 1988. 70-2 |
| Textual Features | Margaret Cavendish | |
| Textual Production | Margaret Cavendish | When a comedy by MC
's husband the Duke of Newcastle, The Humorous Lovers, was acted in 1667, many of the audience (including Samuel Pepys
and Aphra Behn
's lover Jeffrey Boys
) supposed... |
Timeline
July 1634: William Cavendish, Earl (later Duke) of Newcastle,...
Writing climate item
July 1634
William Cavendish, Earl (later Duke) of Newcastle
, gave a masque at one of his Nottinghamshire estates for Queen Henrietta Maria
: Love's Welcome at Bolsover.
Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-37.
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2 June 1644: The Battle of Marston Moor near York was...
National or international item
2 June 1644
The Battle of Marston Moor near York was fought: a singularly bloody affair, and the largest battle of the English Civil War.
Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.
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Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
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Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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8 July 1644: William Cavendish (then Marquess of Newcastle,...
National or international item
8 July 1644
William Cavendish (then Marquess of Newcastle
, later husband of Margaret Cavendish
), commander-in-chief of royalist forces in England, landed in Hamburg in Germany.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Father of two women writers, he was shortly to marry a third.
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