...Jonathan Goldberg Duke University Press 2004 MARGARET CAVENDISH, SCRIBE Jonathan Goldberg In a startling moment past the midpoint of A New World, Called the Blazing World, Margaret Cavendish, its presumptive narrator and unquestioned author, appears in the text as a character...

..., such recom- binations of atoms were also understood to be motivated and formed by the aes- thetic. For example, in Poems and Fancies (1653), an imitation and adaptation of De rerum natura, Margaret Cavendish describes how similar atoms “fit places finde” based on “such forms...

... more, and better, in the future. The question of unknowability resurfaces in Goldberg’s essay, “Margaret Cavendish, Scribe,” which takes us into the archive to consider questions of desire and writing, of the ways in which desire is animated in writing and in handwriting in particular. Here...

...: John Lyly, Thomas Heywood, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, William Warner, Robert Burton, John Fletcher, James Shirley, George Sandys, John Crowne, Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, Aphra...

... described his speech as “effeminate.” 101. One name mentioned by Saul surfaces nowhere else in the police reports, court pro- ceedings, or popular press: that of George Cavendish Bentinck, “who frequently vis- ited the home and had to do with boys.” D’Arch Smith describes Bentinck...