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Margaret Cavendish's "Mad" Imagination

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was a natural philosopher, autobiographer, and fiction writer in a time when women were not formally educated.

Cavendish's poetry and prose explored nature's vitality and speculated about the composition of the world, from atoms to consciousness. [ more ]

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Read Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World: The First Sci-Fi Novel Written By a Woman (1666)

Science fiction has historically been male-dominated, but there have been notable works by women writers.

Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World, published in 1666, is considered a precursor to science fiction and utopian novel genres. [ more ]

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Margaret Cavendish's "Mad" Imagination

Read Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World: The First Sci-Fi Novel Written By a Woman (1666)

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