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La filosofía fantástica de Margaret Cavendish. Margaret Cavendish es la autora de la primera novela de ciencia ficción escrita por una mujer. Hizo una rehabilitación filosófica de la fantasía. Escribió también varios libros de filosofía natural y participó en numerosos debates sobre esta temática. Fue invitada a una reunión de la ...
Liza Blake, Shawn Moore, and Jacob Tootalian, General Editors. The Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish ( CWMC) will be the first complete collection of all of Margaret Cavendish’s extensive corpus of literary, philosophical, historical and personal writing, and will consist entirely of critical editions of her works.
16 de abr. de 2013 · First Lady. In 1667 Margaret Cavendish was the first woman allowed to visit the all-male bastion of the Royal Society, a newly formed scientific society. Who was this woman? Frotispiece of Margaret Cavendish, ca. 1650s, one of three the writer commissioned from artist Abraham van Diepenbeeck. On May 30, 1667, a large, black coach made its way ...
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was a prolific writer who worked in many genres, including poetry, fiction, drama, letters, biography, science, and even science fiction. Unlike most women of her day, who wrote anonymously, she published her works under her own name. Her significance as a…
14 de may. de 2014 · When Margaret Cavendish became the first woman to visit the Royal Society in May 1667, the occasion caused something of a stir. Cavendish was notorious among her contemporaries as the female author of plays, poetry, orations, essays and even works of natural philosophy. 1 In one of these ‘scientific’ texts Cavendish had attacked the experimentalists of the Royal Society in general and ...
The English author and natural philosopher Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673), reflected on the meaning and purpose of life: “There's a saying, That men are born to live, and live to dye; but I think some are onely born to dye, and not to live; for they make small use of life, and life makes small use of them.”
Margaret Cavendish (neé Lucas) was born near Colchester in 1623, the daughter of wealthy parents. Her education as a child was basic – like many women of her day, she was taught to read and write, and studied music, needlework and dancing. In 1643, at the age of 20, she went to Oxford, to seek a position in the household of Queen Henrietta ...
