A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of NewcastleStephen Clucas Ashgate, 2003 - 285 pages Margaret Cavendish was probably one of the first women to fashion herself as an author. Her scholarly acceptance has been uneasy, but, as these essays aim to show, rather than self-absorbed or lacking in method, her own high-flying Phancies are the self-legitimating grounds of her discourse. |