Review of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies

Authors

James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona UniversityFollow

Author Biography

James Fitzmaurice is Emeritus Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, but lives in the UK where he is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield. He has published on Margaret Cavendish and other Early Modern women writers. Most recently, he has been writing screenplays on seventeenth-century topics as well as on figures from the history of literary theory.

Abstract

Liza Blake’s free website is sure to become the first stop for anyone beginning work with Poems and Fancies. Most importantly for those who want to explore Cavendish's poetry in depth is that fact that Blake’s website provides an easy means of comparison of versions of poems printed in the 1653, 1664, and 1668 editions.

Keywords

Cavendish. Poems and Fancies, editions, conflated texts

Recommended Citation

Fitzmaurice, James (2019) "Review of Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol.9: Iss.2, Article 5.
http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.9.2.1223
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol9/iss2/5