SOURCE: "The Voyage of Fancy," in Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957, pp. 151-70.

Below, Grant focuses on Cavendish's early works written during the years of her exile, emphasizing the broad range of Cavendish's literary output and tracing the source of her highly imaginative literary creations to her own life experiences and aspirations.

I desire all my readers and acquaintance to believe, though my words run stumbling out of my mouth, and my pen draws roughly on my paper, yet my thoughts move regular in my brain.

One of the illustrations made by Abraham van Diepenbeke for the book on horsemanship was a group portrait of Newcastle and his family. Newcastle and Margaret are shown seated under the middle arch of a portico of five arches. Newcastle's three daughters and their husbands, the Earl of Bridgewater, the Earl of Bolingbroke...