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First Published:  March 2004
Revised (substantive):  7 July 2025

Composite illustration casting Margaret Cavendish as MAD MADGE. Portrait of Margaret Cavendish, engraved by Peter van Schuppen after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, ca. 1655, is juxtaposed with a graphic presentation of quote from a May 1691 issue of _The Athenian Mercury_ (an influential journal of popular science), which makes an oblique reference to Mad Madge.

 

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Margaret Cavendish in THE PLAYERS section
 
[ “Rethinking ‘Mad Madge’” ]

[ Click/tap here to open a second-window aside with complete text of the Athenian Mercury quote — which includes the first printed reference to “mad Madge of Newcastle.” ]

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