“Get liberty and freedome from the Female Slavery”. Margaret Cavendish and women’s rights during the English Civil War
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https://doi.org/10.30827/arenal.v25i2.5281Keywords:
Margaret Cavendish, Bell in Campo, Women, Female writing, Public sphere, Female agencyAbstract
The objective of this article is to analyse the role played by women in wartimes in one of the main and most interesting plays written by Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673): Bell in Campo, which has become one of her most relevant Works because of the approach she made to the female participation in war and, at the same time, serves as a propagandist item for the Queen Henrietta Maria of England actions’. Besides, this play makes some political and social claims in relation to woman and her visibility in society which allows us to consider Newcastle’s writings within the first English feminism of 17th century.
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