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Margaret Cavendish and patronage
Endeavour, 1999Abstract Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) was the first woman to publish on scientific subjects in English. Gender limited Cavendish's membership in the emerging scientific community; to circumvent this restraint, Cavendish used patronage rituals to establish the legitimacy of her scientific role.
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Margaret Cavendish's Epistemology
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2009This paper provides a systematic reconstruction of Cavendish's general epistemology and a characterization of the fundamental role of that theory in her natural philosophy. After reviewing the outlines of her natural philosophy, I describe her treatment of ‘exterior knowledge’, i.e. of perception in general and of sense perception in particular. I then
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2017
Throughout her work, Margaret Cavendish made much of her status as a wife, particularly as the wife of a peer. Rather than seeing this assertion as one of gendered dependence on her husband, or as vainglory, this chapter argues that Cavendish understood her status as a form of political office holding, both literally, as a rights-holding political ...
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Throughout her work, Margaret Cavendish made much of her status as a wife, particularly as the wife of a peer. Rather than seeing this assertion as one of gendered dependence on her husband, or as vainglory, this chapter argues that Cavendish understood her status as a form of political office holding, both literally, as a rights-holding political ...
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Margaret Cavendish’s Experiments with Interiority
The Criticism and Theory Society of KoreaThis essay juxtaposes Margaret Cavendish’s two early works Sociable Letters (1664) and The Convent of Pleasure (1668) in an effort to illustrate how the seventeenth-century woman writer attested to the possibility of achieving interiority in and outside of printed texts.
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Margaret Cavendish on conceivability, possibility, and the case of colours
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2022exaly
“The minde is matter moved”: Nehemiah Grew on Margaret Cavendish
Intellectual History Review, 2017Justin Begley
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