The convent of pleasure and other plays
Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Anne Shaver (Editor)
The convent of pleasure: A tells the story of Lady Happy, a noblewoman who chooses to reject marriage in favor of creating a community -- the titular "convent" -- in which she and other women of noble birth can live free from the constraints of patriarchy. Like much of Cavendish's fiction, it explores utopian ideals and questions the expected roles of women in 17th-century English society
Print Book, English, 1999
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1999