The Convent of Pleasure AUTH-3282212 ISBN13: 9781950922802

ISBN13: 9781950922802

Chauvet commands a wealth of scholarship which he deploys to powerful effect

With a plot that has more twists and turns than an Arizona mountain road

which are cited by readers and reviewers for wit and vivid characterization

but with compassion

The Convent of Pleasure AUTH-3282212 ISBN13: 9781950922802Margaret Lucas Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623 1673), began her literary career in 1653, with the publication of a volume of her poems and another of her "philosophical fancies." Her writing continued at a hectic pace for nearly two decades. She did not limit herself to the genres considered "acceptable" for those few women who dared to publish in the late seventeenth century; instead, she wrote philosophical and scientific works, a utopian