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Throughout her work, Margaret Cavendish made much of her status as a wife, particularly as the wife of a peer. Rather than seeing this assertion as one of gendered dependence on her husband, or as vainglory, this chapter argues that Cavendish understood her status as a form of political office holding, both literally, as a rights-holding political subject, and by analogy, as the consilium to the state’s imperium.
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Crawford, J. (2017). Margaret Cavendish, Wife. In: Crawforth, H., Lewis, S. (eds) Family Politics in Early Modern Literature. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51144-7_2
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