Margaret Cavendish (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Philosopher)

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Margaret Cavendish (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Birthdate:
Birthplace: St John’s Abbey, Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Death: December 15, 1673 (49-50)
Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Place of Burial: North Transept, Westminster Abbey, London, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Thomas Lucas and Elizabeth Lucas
Wife of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Sister of Sir Thomas Lucas; Mary Killegrew; John Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Shenfield; Catherine Pye; Elizabeth Walter and 1 other
Half sister of Margaret Lucas

Occupation: philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright
Managed by: Carole (Erickson) Pomeroy,Vol. C...
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About Margaret Cavendish (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Philosopher)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Newcas...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/margaret-cavendish/

Works:

1653, Poems and Fancies, London: printed by T.R. for J. Martin and J. Allestrye.

1653, Philosophicall Fancies, London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for J. Martin and J. Allestrye.

1655, The World's Olio, London: printed for J. Martin and J. Allestrye.

1662, Cavendish, Margaret, Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places, London.

1662, , Bell in Campo, in Playes, London: John Martyn, James Allestry, and Tho. Dicas.

1663 [1655], Cavendish, Margaret, Philosophical and Physical Opinions, London: printed for William Wilson

1664, Cavendish, Margaret, Philosophical Letters, London.

1664, Sociable Letters, London: William Wilson.

1666, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World, in Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings, ed. Susan James, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2003).

1668, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, ed. Eileen O'Neill, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2001).

1668, Grounds of Natural Philosophy, ed. Colette V. Michael, West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press (1996).

The life of William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle, to which is added The true relation of my birth, breeding and life (1886)

by Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674

http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeofwilliamca00newcuoft#page/n9/mod...

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Margaret Cavendish (Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Philosopher)'s Timeline

1623
1623
St John’s Abbey, Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom
1673
December 15, 1673
Age 50
Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
1674
January 7, 1674
Age 50
North Transept, Westminster Abbey, London, England