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To learn more about the engraver of the 17th-century head-piece pictured to the left, see the IN BRIEF biography for Wenceslaus Hollar.

There is more on Margaret Cavendish’s attitudes towards controversy in the Editor’s Introduction for Thomas Hobbes’ A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique (1637). See Part I of the digital edition, Lib. Cat. No. THOB1637.

Cavendish was the target of a battle-of-the-books initiated by Susan Du Verger, and Cavendish mentions the controversy with Du Verger in her Philosophical Letters. Du Verger’s polemic is also available as an original She-philosopher.com e-publication. See the digital edition, Lib. Cat. No. SDUV1657.

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LIBRARY > Digital edition: Lib. Cat. No. MC1664b > “To His Excellency, the Lord Marquis of Newcastle,” “To the Most Famous University of Cambridge,” and “A Preface to the Reader.” From Philosophical letters: or, Modest reflections upon some opinions in natural philosophy, maintained by several famous and learned authors of this age, expressed by way of letters: by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle. London: [n.p.], printed in the year, 1664. a1r–c1v. By Margaret Cavendish (later duchess of Newcastle; 1623–1673).

First Published: March 2013
Revised (substantive): 9 May 2021

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17th-century head-piece showing six boys with farm tools, by Wenceslaus Hollar

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