Atomic Poems of Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, The
From the Emory Women Writers Resource Project. Selection of poems edited and introduced by Leigh Tillman Partington.
Book Review
Carrie Hintz reviews Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind, by Anna Battigelli.
Book Reviews
Bernadette Andrea reviews Sociable Letters and The Convent of Pleasure, Ed. James Fitzmaurice; The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays, Ed. Anne Shaver.
Essay on Margaret Cavendish
"'Thus by the Musick of a Ladyes Tongue': Margaret Cavendish's dramatic innovations in women's education," by Annette Kramer.
Luminarium: Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish
Quotes, biography, works, and links.
Margaret Cavendish Bibliography
Compiled by James Fitzmaurice of Northern Arizona University.
Margaret Cavendish Bibliography
Compiled by Ron Cooley of the University of Saskatchewan.
Margaret Cavendish Book Extract
From "Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Royalist, Writer and Romantic," by Katie Whitaker.
Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle
Excerpt from Cavendish's "The Blazing World," and a brief history of the text.
Norton Anthology of English Literature
Very short biography, text of her poem, "A World in an Eare-Ring," image of frontispiece to Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655), and an online quiz.
Poems from Poems and Fancies
Selected works from her 1653 edition.
Romancing Multiplicity: Female Subjectivity and th
Geraldine Wagner argues that Cavendish "considered textuality a means to subjectivity: one in which there is . . . no sovereign head, but many multi-bodied, competing loci of potential agency."
Sunshine for Women: Margaret Lucas Cavendish
A brief biographical profile and introduction to Cavendish's work.
The Margaret Cavendish Society Website
A network of scholars that study Cavendish, her works, and her 17th-century contexts.
Women's Writing (Journal): Special Issue on C
"This journal constitutes the very first collection of critical essays on Margaret Cavendish." Full-text articles are available in Adobe PDF format.