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Paperback The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays Book

ISBN: 0801861004

ISBN13: 9780801861000

The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays

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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), until recently remembered more as a flamboyant eccentric than as a serious writer, was in fact the most prolific, thought-provoking, and original woman writer of the Restoration. Cavendish is the author of many poems, short stories, biographies, memoirs, letters, philosophical and scientific works (including The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World, the first work of...

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PROFESSOR CAVENDISH?

I've read a lot of Cavendish's works --- but not this book. I'm only chiming in on one thing: where the heck did she get the title professor? She was a wealthy and educated woman, but she did not attend a university or earn any sort of degree. Women in that time simply weren't permitted. So what the heck is up with the Professor M. Cavendish? Oye.
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