Teaching Margaret Cavendish and Early Modern Women Writers: 1982 - 2013

Authors

James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University

Publication Date

11-2024

Keywords

Margaret Cavendish, women writers, classroom teaching

Abstract

I first came across Margaret Cavendish during the summer of 1982 in an innocuous trade collection of early modern women writers. Like many teachers of English, I made a habit of dropping into used book stores, and in such a place I found the collection. It contained a very few selections from Sociable Letters, in among the work of other women. Those few letters set me off on a new path of formal classroom teaching in person and online first at Northern Arizona University and later at the University of Sheffield. Those letters and other material from early modern women writers would form the focus of my teaching until I retired in June of 2013.

Recommended Citation

Fitzmaurice, James (2024) "Teaching Margaret Cavendish and Early Modern Women Writers: 1982 - 2013," Quidditas: Vol. 45, Article 12.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rmmra/vol45/iss1/12