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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ... while women rarely wrote about natural philosophy in the 17th century, Cavendish published six books on the ...
The work was initially published as a companion piece to Cavendish's Observations upon Experimental Philosophy [6] and thus functioned as an imaginative component to what was otherwise a reasoned endeavor in 17th-century science. It was reprinted in 1668. [6]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:17th-century English writers. ... Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Elizabeth Cellier; Susanna ...
The Convent of Pleasure is a comedic play first published by Margaret Cavendish in 1668. It 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.
Later in the seventeenth century, Margaret Cavendish references Wroth and her works in “To All Noble, and Worthy Ladies,” in her 1664 Poems and Phancies. [20] Other responses, however, were much less positive, especially those of the aristocracy, who seemed to take issue with the use of her contemporaries as inspiration.
Margaret Cavendish. Anna Åkerhjelm (1647–1693), Swedish traveler and archaeologist; Ann Baynard (1672–1697), British Natural philosopher; Aphra Behn (1640–1689), British translator of an astronomical work; Martine Bertereau (1600–fl.1642), French mineralogist; Agnes Block (1629–1704), Dutch horticulturalist
Philosophers born in the 17th century (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically: ... Margaret Cavendish, (1623–1673) [1] [3]
Pages in category "17th-century English philosophers" ... Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Mary Clarke (letter writer) Catharine Trotter Cockburn;