And Margaret Does It Again!

Margaret Cavendish is a writer like none we have seen yet. Not only is she a very popular woman writer, who consistently wrote under her own name instead of a fake one, but she wrote about things not usually in the feminine sphere in her time. She would talk of the science of the universe and the scientific method, of gender and power games, and anything else she knew about in her world as a marquess. The one way in which she is similar to all the other writers then and before is that she lived in the high class. She was very well educated and found herself connected to all sorts of queens and dukes. This then shows how courageous of a woman she was when writing her prose, essays, and plays. She in no way hid her mind like women were most undoubtedly told to do.

In the poem "Atoms and Motion Fall Out." Cavendish has a way of explaining the world to people in a truly scientific way. All the other times we came across the author trying to explain the natural and man-made world they would often fall back onto religion or magic. This shows that Margaret understood, and wanted to teach, how the world and universe is made by science, not anything else. This leads you to ask what Margaret believed in. In her Philosophical Letters she uses God as an example and as the truth, but in many of her other writings she almost seems to be dismissing Him. Cavendish is a wonderful woman writer that had many nooks and crannies that need to be explored and sorted out. One thing is very clear: Margaret Cavendish was an incredibly smart woman.

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