Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 - 1673). A
Royalist during English Civil War, Margaret Lucas was Maid of Honor
to Queen Henrietta Maria from 1643 to 1645. She wrote a total of
fourteen works on a broad selection of topics- scientific and
philosophical treatises, science fiction, a biography, an
autobiography, essays, letters, poetry, "orations", and several
plays.
Kate Lilley was born in Perth. She completed her doctorate on
Masculine Elegy at the University of London and went on to
postdoctoral research at St Hilda's College, Oxford as the Julia
Mann Junior Research Fellow. She now teaches Literary History and
Critical Theory at the University of Sydney. She has published many
essays on contemporary Australian and American poetry, especially
the work of John Tranter, and on 17th century women's writing.
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