Cavendish published no books and few papers, but he achieved much.

In 1783 Cavendish published a paper on eudiometry ( the measurement of the goodness of gases for breathing ).

The Scottish inventor James Watt published a paper on the composition of water in 1783 ; Cavendish had performed the experiments first but published second.

The most famous of those experiments, published in 1798, was to determine the density of the Earth and became known as the Cavendish experiment.

The apparatus was sent in crates to Cavendish, who completed the experiment in 1797 – 1798, and published the results.

Cavendish was a poet, philosopher, writer of prose romances, essayist, and playwright who published under her own name at a time when most women writers published anonymously.

Cavendish follows some of her epistles with poems that instruct the reader in how the poems came to be published and how they should be received.

She notes that while women rarely wrote about natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, Cavendish published six books on the subject.

Cavendish ’ s prose tale was published in 1666 and was republished with Observations upon Experimental Philosophy in 1668.

Cavendish also published collections of letters, such as Sociable Letters and Philosophical Letters ( 1664 ), orations, as in her collection entitled Orations ( 1662 ), and plays, many of which are printed in Plays Never Before Published ( 1668 ).

Charles conceived the idea that hydrogen would be a suitable lifting agent for balloons having studied the work of Robert Boyle's Boyle's Law which was published 100 years earlier in 1662, and of his contemporaries Henry Cavendish, Joseph Black and Tiberius Cavallo.

* William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle-The Humorous Lovers and The Triumphant Widow published

Another correspondent was William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire ; English translations by Thomas Hobbes of 45 letters to the Earl were published ( Hobbes acted as the Earl's secretary ), and it is now thought that these are jointly from Sarpi ( when alive ) and his close friend Fulgenzio Micanzio, something concealed at the time as a matter of prudence.

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man ( 1791 ) was published during his residence at 154 New Cavendish Street, in reply to Edmund Burke ( author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 ), who lived at 18 Charlotte Street.

More recently, Michell has become known for his letter to Cavendish, published in 1784, on the effect of gravity on light.

* Story Teller ( Marshall Cavendish ), a magazine published by Marshall Cavendish between 1982 and 1985

An updated version " The Great Book of Corgi 1956-2006 The Complete Corgi Story " by Marcel Van Cleemput was published by New Cavendish books on 30 November 2010.

Publications on older Hornby and Meccano products are dominated by those published by New Cavendish Books as ' The Hornby Companion Series ', in particular Chris & Julie Graebe's ' The Hornby Gauge 0 System ' and Michael Foster's sister volume on Hornby Dublo.

A prolific writer, during the mid 1950s he wrote for the Cavendish Magazine, published by the Congregational Chapel on Cavendish Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock ( see Religion, above ).

It was published in 2003 by the Cavendish Astrophysics Group of the University of Cambridge.

One notable practitioner was Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire whose efforts on behalf of Charles James Fox in the 18th century included press relations, lobbying and, with her friends, celebrity campaigning.

According to Cavendish, Anne was sent from court to her family's countryside estates, but it is not known for how long.

According to Marie Dowling " Anne tried to educate her waiting-women in scriptural piety ” and is believed to have reproved her cousin, Mary Shelton, for “ having ‘ idle poesies ’ written in her prayer book .” If Cavendish is to be believed, Anne's outrage at Wolsey may have personalized whatever philosophical defiance she brought with her from France.

George Cavendish, Wolsey's chamberlain, records that the servants who waited on the king and Anne at dinner in 1529 in Grafton heard her say that the dishonour that Wolsey had brought upon the realm would have cost any other Englishman his head.

They split in 1932 when Adele married her first husband, Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, a son of the Duke of Devonshire.

Montgomery drew much of her inspiration for Avonlea from her childhood experiences in the late 19th century farming communities surrounding Cavendish, New Glasgow, New London, Hunter River, and Park Corner.

In addition to her own six children, Bess was now responsible for the two daughters of Sir William Cavendish from his first marriage.

Bess became famous for her building projects, especially two of them: Chatsworth, now the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire ( whose family name is still " Cavendish ", because they are descended from the children of her second marriage ), and Hardwick Hall, of which it has been said: " Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall ", because of the number and size of its windows.

In 1549 they sold all their property in the area to Sir William Cavendish, Treasurer of the King's Chamber and the husband of Bess of Hardwick, who had persuaded him to sell his property in Suffolk and settle in her native county.

Bess died in 1608 and Chatsworth was passed to her second son William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire.

His mother died in 1733, three months after the birth of her second son, Frederick, and shortly before Henry ’ s second birthday, leaving Lord Charles Cavendish to bring up his two sons.

Known to her family as " Debo ", Deborah Mitford married Lord Andrew Cavendish, younger son of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, in 1941.

Upon the death of her husband in 2004, her son Peregrine Cavendish became the 12th Duke of Devonshire.

In childhood, her younger sisters Jessica Mitford (" Decca ") and Deborah Cavendish, 11th Duchess of Devonshire (" Debo ") were particularly devoted to her.

On April 20, 1947, Adele Cavendish married her second husband, Col. Kingman Douglass, an American investment banker and Air Force officer who was an assistant director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Fred Astaire's sister Adele lived in the castle after marrying the Lord Charles Cavendish, a son of the 9th Duke and, after his death in 1944, continued to use the castle until shortly before her death in 1981.

The memoir relates Cavendish ’ s lineage, social status, fortune, upbringing, education and marriage.

Within the memoir, Cavendish also details her pastimes and manners and offers an account of her own personality and ambition, including her thoughts on her extreme bashfulness, contemplative nature and writing.

Ultimately, Cavendish ’ s memoir enables the reader to gain insight into the author ’ s life and art as she would have it known.

In her memoir, Cavendish details the lives, pastimes and deaths of her parents and siblings, as well as of her husband and other relatives, including a biography of her brother Charles Lucas, one of the best Civil War Cavalier cavalry commanders who was executed by the Parliament for treason during the Second English Civil War.

Some particulars of Cavendish ’ s memoir are as follows.

In her memoir, Cavendish expresses that she enjoyed inventing herself through fashion.

Cavendish also notes that she expects to be criticized for her decision to write a memoir.