Margaret the First by Douglas Grant - 9781487599201

Margaret the FirstA Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673\nAuthor(s): Douglas Grant\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487599201, 978-1487599201\nSynopsis\nMargaret Cavendish was one of the most original, loveable and eccentric of women writers. Pepys called her \""mad, ridiculous, and conceited\"" but when she paid her famous visit to London in 1667 he ran all over town to see her. And many of her other contemporaries were no less fascinated. Posterity has continued to feel the attraction; to her many admirers she has always been \""the incomparable Princess,\"" and Lamb enthusiastically praised her as \""the thrice noble, chase, and virtuousbut again somewhat fantastical, and original-brain'd, generous Margaret Newcastle.\""\n\n This biography is the first full-length study entirely devoted to the Duchess of Newcastle. It shows Margaret's metamorphosis from an imaginative, bashf.