Cavendish, Margaret

Margaret Cavendish(1623 - 1673), an English aristocrat and writer, was the first English woman author to publish her work under her own name. Though she was a poet, essayist, and playwright,Cavendish's major works focused on natural philosophy and science. She was against the new science and its inventions and attacked the mechanical philosophy of the seventeenth century. A revolutionary female writer, she wrote The Blazing World (1666), an important early example of science fiction. ;

A unique and groundbreaking female writer, poetess and philosopher who published her works under her own signature when most female writers wrote anonymously. Cavendish dealt exclusively with the topics of supremacy, gender and manners in most of her works.;