Lady Margaret Lucas Cavendish
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Gender | Female |
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Born | Colchester |
United Kingdom | |
Died | Welbeck Abbey |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle |
School | Vitalism |
Siblings | John Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Shenfield |
Parents | Elizabeth Leighton |
Books | The Blazing World |
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ID | 3311830 |
Lady Margaret Lucas Cavendish Life story
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright. Being related to royalists, she spent some of the English Civil War in France. She wrote in her own name in a period when most women writers remained anonymous.