In the north transept is a monument by Grinling Gibbons to William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle and his wife Margaret, who were both writers.

Merve Emre writes about Margaret Cavendish, the seventeenth-century natural philosopher, autobiographer, and fiction writer who is the subject of “Pure Wit,” a new biography by Francesca Peacock.

Cyclist Sir Mark Cavendish has praised "superb" Prince William after receiving a knighthood from the royal in a ceremony at Windsor Castle.

Cavendish, author of enough poems, plays and letters to fill 12 books (currently being republished in 20 academic volumes), and the first woman invited to visit the newly formed Royal Society, was ...

A direct descendant of William Wordsworth has spoken of his sadness of having to put the poet's house up for sale. Christopher Wordsworth Andrew says that he and his brother Simon Bennie have ...

Meet ‘Mad Madge’, the unsung genius of 17th-century letters Philosopher, poet, sci-fi author and scandalous celebrity, Margaret Cavendish was a woman out of time. This blazing biography does ...

As an aristocrat, Cavendish was well-educated for a young woman of her period, and she later learned science and philosophy from her husband William and brother-in-law Charles.

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William Browne of Tavistock wrote in the time of James I., in the Elizabethan manner, but without the freshness of the early pastoral poets, heartfelt praises of the scenery of Devonshire.

In “Pure Wit,” Francesca Peacock makes a fresh case for the writer Margaret Cavendish’s place in the feminist canon.