Author's note
Introduction: the empress and authoress of a whole world
The monstrous regiment of women
This unnatural war came like a whirlwind
Generalissimas and she-soldiers
On sorrow's billows this ship was tossed
It is hard to get children with good courage
A sumptuous banquet for the brain
The first English poet of your sex
We women are miserable
I have been asleep sixteen years
Women's kisses are unnatural
The thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent Princess of Philosophy
The Duchess of Newcastle is all the subject now discoursed on
What will survive of us is books
Doubt of an after being
Appendix 1: Works by Margaret Cavendish
Appendix 2: Other abbreviated works
Appendix 3: Abbreviations
Bibliography
Notes
Image credits
Acknowledgements
Index.