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Shawn W. Moore – Texas A&M University Twitter: @S_moores Email: shawnw.moore@tamu.edu

Life After Print: The Sociability of Margaret Cavendish’s Plays, Never before Printed (1668) and What it Means for Cavendish Studies. Shawn W. Moore – Texas A&M University Twitter: @S_moores Email: shawnw.moore@tamu.edu. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673).

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Shawn W. Moore – Texas A&M University Twitter: @S_moores Email: shawnw.moore@tamu.edu

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  1. Life After Print: The Sociability of Margaret Cavendish’s Plays, Never before Printed (1668) and What it Means for Cavendish Studies Shawn W. Moore – Texas A&M University Twitter: @S_moores Email: shawnw.moore@tamu.edu

  2. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673)

  3. The Life of the Thrice Noble, High and Puissant Prince, William Cavendishe(1667)

  4. CCXI. Sociable Letters (1664)

  5. Plays, Never before Printed (1668) – contains “The Female Wits”; “The Presence”; “The Bridals”; “The Convent of Pleasure”; and “A Piece of a Play”

  6. Handwritten (neat italic) Corrections From the Folger Library: Plays, Never before Printed (1668) From Chawton House Library: Plays, Never before Printed (1668)

  7. Paper-Slips

  8. Strike-outs

  9. Why these editions? Philosophicall Fancies. 1653. The Philosophical and Physical Opinions. 1655. (with an enlarged edition) Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life. 1656. (2 editions with the addendum A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life) Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places. 1662. (2 editions) Playes. 1662. CCXI Sociable Letters. 1664. Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections Upon Some Opinions in Natural Philosophy, Maintained by Several Famous and Learned Authors of This Age, Expressed by Way of Letters. 1664. Poems and Fancies. 1654. (3 editions – Poems and Phancies. 1664., and Poems, or, Several Fancies in Verse: With the Animal Parliment, In Prose. 1668) The Worlds Olio. 1655. (2 editions) Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. To which is added, The Description of a new Blazing World. 1666. (2 editions) - The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World. 1666. The Life of the Thrice Noble, High and Puissant Prince William Cavedishe. 1667. (with Latin translation) Grounds of Natural Philosophy. Revised edition. London: Printed by A. Maxwell. 1668. Plays, Never Before Printed. 1668.

  10. Life After Print - Signatures

  11. Life After Print: Marginalia (and other interesting markings)

  12. Life After Print - Armorial Bookplate Bookplate of 9th Lord Napier, William John Napier (recently sold at auction. Bookplate of Lord Napier

  13. Life After Print - Armorial Bookplate Dear Charles Le Moyen de Parvenir is safewith me I [send] [King] which had fallen[aside] (_ _ _ _ _) the [lucubrations] of (_ _ _)N. Wraxall which you [seemd] to [think]you would like to [peruse]. (_ _ _) the Duchesses plays ofwhich I request your kind acceptance Yours [err] Walter Scott Walter Scott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, January 1819

  14. Life After Print: Maintaining the text

  15. What does it mean for Cavendish studies? For more on Cavendish’s presentation copies: • Jeffrey Masten, “Material Cavendish: Paper, Performance, ‘Social Virginity,’” Modern Language Quarterly 65 (2004). • James Fitzmaurice, “Margaret Cavendish on Her Own Writing: Evidence from Revision and Handmade Correction,” PBSA 85.3 (1991).

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