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Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)

Author of The Blazing World and Other Writings

Includes the names: Margaret Cavendish, Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Margaret Duchess of Newcastle, Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Duchess of Newcastle Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle Margaret Lucas Cavendish

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
The Blazing World and Other Writings	149	1	14	3.32	3.00	0.96
"The Convent of Pleasure" and Other Plays	22		2	3.00	3.00
An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Fiction	48		2	4.25	4.25	0.75
Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader (Broadview Literary Texts)	46		2	3.50	3.50	0.50
Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions (Broadview Literary Texts)	7		1	4.00	4.00
Sociable Letters	4		1	4.00	4.00
The Description Of A New World Called The Blazing World	2		1	2.00	2.00
The life of the thrice noble high and puissant Prince William Cavendishe, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Newcastle ...	2
Plays, never before printed	2
CCXI sociable letters	1
Le Monde glorieux	1
Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Nevvcastle	1
Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections upon some Opinions in Natural Philosophy, Maintained by Several Famous and Learned Authors of this Age	2
The cavalier in exile; being the lives of the first Dvke & Dvtchess of Newcastle	1
Convent of Pleasure: A Comedy	3
The life of the duke of Newcastle (Everyman's library : Biography)	1
The life of the Duke of Newcastlen& other writings	4
The Life of the Duke of Newcastle, A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding and life, Sociable Letters	2
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World	5
Poems and Fancies	1
Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)	10
Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)	6
New Blazing World and Other Writings (The Pickering Women's Classics)	1
Natures pictures drawn by fancies pencil to the life.	1	1
The Lives of William Cavendishe, Duke of Newcastle, and of His Wife, Margaret....	2
Sociable Companions: Or,The Female Wits - A Comedy	1
The worlds olio	1

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