Author's note

Introduction: the empress and authoress of a whole world

The monstrous regiment of women

This unnatural war came like a whirlwind

Generalissimas and she-soldiers

On sorrow's billows this ship was tossed

It is hard to get children with good courage

A sumptuous banquet for the brain

The first English poet of your sex

We women are miserable

I have been asleep sixteen years

Women's kisses are unnatural

The thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent Princess of Philosophy

The Duchess of Newcastle is all the subject now discoursed on

What will survive of us is books

Doubt of an after being

Appendix 1: Works by Margaret Cavendish

Appendix 2: Other abbreviated works

Appendix 3: Abbreviations

Bibliography

Notes

Image credits

Acknowledgements

Index