Biography+Cavendish




 * //Born in1624 inColchester, Essex to Sir Thomas Lucas and his wife Elizabeth//
 * //Youngest of eight children//
 * //She was taught by a gentlewomen, who only taught them reading and writing//
 * //First started writing “baby books” which were about 50-75 pages long//
 * //She was a devout Royalist//
 * //Fled to Oxford in 1640 during the English civil war//
 * //Became a maid-of-honor to Queen Henrietta Maria//




 * //Separated from her family in 1644 when the Queen and her court fled further into exile in France//
 * //This is where she met her husband, William Cavendish, the Duke of Newcastle, and they got married in 1645//
 * //They lived in poverty during the Interregnum, when Margaret received lessons in Science and Philosophy from her husband and his brother, Sir Charles Cavendish//
 * //Returned to England in November of 1651, where she began writing her first book, entitled Poems and Fancies//
 * //Was the first woman in England who wrote mainly for publication//
 * //Died on December 15, 1673 at 50 years old//