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Margaret Cavendish Bibliography

Compiled by James Fitzmaurice,
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    The Blazing World. In An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Fiction, ed. Paul Salzman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

    The Blazing World and Other Writings, ed. Kate Lilley. London: Pickering, 1992 [rpt. Penguin, 1994].

    The Convent of Pleasure, ed. Jennifer Rowsell. Oxford: Seventeenth Century Press, 1995.

    Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World,. London: 1666.

    Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn [letter from Cavendish to Evelyn], ed. William Bray. London: Henry Colburn, 1857, vol. 3, p. 226.

    The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne [ed. Thomas Longuville]. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910. [Biography containing extracts from MS sources.]

    Grounds of Natural Philosophy. London: 1668

    Grounds of Natural philosophy. Introduction by Colette V. Michael. Publisher West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill Press, 1996. Series Women in the sciences.

    Life of William Cavendishe. London: 1667.

    The Life of the (1st) Duke Of Newcastle and Other Writings By Margaret Duchess. London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1916.

    Lives of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, and His Wife Margaret, ed. M.A. Lower, London: J.R. Smith, 1872.

    The Lotterie [unpublished play], University of Nottingham Library MS Pw V, 23.

    Margaret Cavendish: Sociable Letters, ed. James Fitzmaurice. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997.

    Natures Pictures. London: 1656 [second edition, 1671].

    Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. London: 1666.

    The Phanseys of William Cavendish, Marquis of Newcastle, Addressed to Margaret Lucas [includes letters from Margaret to William] ed. Douglas Grant. London: Nonsuch, 1956.

    Philosophical Fancies. London: 1653.

    Philosophical Letters. London: 1664.

    Philosophical Opinions. London: 1655 [second edition, 1663].

    Plays. London: 1662.

    Plays. London: 1668.

    Poems and Fancies. London: 1653 [second edition, 1664, third edition, 1668].

    The Sociable Companions, Or the Female Wits, ed. Jennifer Rowsell. Oxford: Seventeenth Century Press, 1996.

    Sociable Letters. London:1664.

    The Worlds Olio. London: 1655.

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