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“Even in literature -- a possible resort in the nineteenth century for for such intelligent and creative women as the Brontes and George Eliot -- there were no female role models for her to follow,”

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Book:Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the First Woman to Live by Her Pen

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“In the forty years from 1600 to 1640, when Margaret reached the age of seventeen, only forty-two books by women had been printed, and of these only seven wore literary works.”

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Book:Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the First Woman to Live by Her Pen

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