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© August 2005
revised 26 June 2008

several prefaces and one poem from
Margaret Cavendish’s works

Including:

• “A Dialogue between Melancholy and Mirth,” from Poems and Fancies (1653)
  
• “To His Grace the Duke of Newcastle,” from Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (1666)
  
• “The Preface to the Ensuing Treatise,” from Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (1666)
  
• “To the Reader,” from Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (1666)
  
• “An Argumental Discourse,” from Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (1666)
  
• “To the Reader,” from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666)
  
• “The Epilogue to the Reader,” from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666)
  

RELATES TO:  the IN BRIEF biography of Wenceslaus Hollar, with self-portraits depicting Hollar’s mirthful & melancholic plural I; an IN BRIEF topic on Montaigne’s gay she-philosopher; several PLAYERS webessays on Margaret Cavendish; the series of GALLERY exhibits on melancholy

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