Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle [née Lucas]

(1623 c.-1673)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 DNB: Cavendish [née Lucas], Margaret, duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne (1623?–1673), writer LBT ID: DsNewca1b VIAF ID: 29597878 LOC ID: n83206596	B/BAP: 1623 DIED: 1673-12-15
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English poet and essayist; the daughter of Thomas Lucas (d. 1625), in 1645 she became the second wife of William Cavendish, marquess of Newcastle upon Tyne.
REFERENCES TO Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle [née Lucas]: Charles Lamb to Robert Southey, 10 August 1825 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 23 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 8 Letters: 1825 Found 1: ¶ 9