@booklet {8646, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Appendix to the Grounds of Natural Philosophy"}, howpublished = {In her Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts: With an Appendix Containing Five Parts. The Second Edition, much altered from the First, which went under the Name of Philosophical and Physical Opinions. Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, The Duchess of Newcastle }, year = {1668}, note = {

Rpt. as by Margaret Lucas Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, Grounds of Natural Philosophy (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1996), 237-311.

}, month = {1668}, pages = {237-311}, publisher = {Ptd. A. Maxwell}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Throughout the \“Appendix\” Cavendish presents two parts of her mind arguing about a number of issues, including in Parts III and IV (265-309), the nature of happy and unhappy worlds and of regular and irregular worlds and, in doing so, develops some suggestions of eutopia and dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {[Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74)} } @booklet {7069, title = {The Convent of Pleasure. In her Plays. Never Before Printed. Written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, The Duchess of Newcastle}, year = {1668}, note = {

Rpt. separately ed. Jennifer Rowsell. Oxford, Eng.: Seventeenth Century Press, 1995; in The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays. Ed. Anne Shaver (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1999), 217-47;and in Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2000), 97-135.

}, month = {1668}, pages = {separately paged}, publisher = {Ptd. by A. Maxwell}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A rich woman creates a eutopian all-female community on her estate.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {[Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74)} } @booklet {7065, title = {The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World}, howpublished = {Part IV of her Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy}, year = {1666}, note = {

First separate publication London: Ptd. By A. Maxwell, 1668. Rpt. in The Description of a New World Called The Blazing World and Other Writings. Ed. Kate Lilley (London: William Pickering, 1992), 119-225 with notes 227-230; Ed. Sara H. Mendelson. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2016 with footnotes by the editor, an Introduction by the editor (9-49), a chronology (51-52), and a note on the text (53); in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 53-114; in Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2000), 151-251; and in Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Political Writings. Ed. Susan James (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1-109. See also The Description of a New World Called The Blazing World By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish. An Illuminated Edition. Illus. in color by Rebekka Dunlap. Np: Beehive Books, 2020, with \“Any Mortal Creator. A Foreword\” by Brooke Bolander (i-iv), \“A Blazing Life. The Invention of Margaret Cavendish\” by James Fitzmaurice (101-111), and \“A Note on the Text Used Here and on the Early Publishing History of A Blazing World\” (112).

}, month = {1666}, pages = {Separately paged.}, publisher = {Ptd. By J. Maxwell}, address = {London}, abstract = {

World attached to Earth at the Pole. Various animals (bears, foxes, geese, etc.) with human characteristics. The eutopia is a small part of an allegory. Monarchy, religion, few laws. Peaceable world because it has only one religion, one language, and one government.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {[Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74)} } @booklet {7051, title = {"The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth, the Author cares not in what World it is established"}, howpublished = {The Worlds Olio}, year = {1655}, note = {

2nd ed. (London: A. Maxwell, 1671), 399-412. Rpt. in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 128-37; 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 145-54.

}, month = {1655}, pages = {205-12}, publisher = {Ptd. for J. Martin Allestrye}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Eutopia. The author provides something close to a constitution for a monarchical system detailing the relations between the King and the people and relations among the people.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {[Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74)}, editor = {Lady M[argaret] of Newcastle (1623?-74)} }