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MARGARET CAVENDISH MARGARET CAVENDISH
Transcript of Margaret cavendish
- 1. MARGARET CAVENDISHMARGARET CAVENDISH
- 2. (1623 15 December 1673) Englisharistocrat, aprolificwriter,and ascientist. ShebecamethesecondwifeofWilliam Cavendish,1stDukeofNewcastle-upon- Tynein1645
- 3. Cavendish was a poet, philosopher, writer of prose romances, essayist, and playwright who published under her own name at a time when most women writers published anonymously. Her writing addressed a number of topics, including gender, power, manners, scientific method, and philosophy.
- 4. Cavendish has been championed and criticized as a unique and groundbreaking woman writer. She has been claimed as an advocate for animals and as an early opponent of animal testing.
- 5. MARGARET CAVENDISHMARGARET CAVENDISH
- 6. O love, how thou art Tyred out with Rhime! Thou art a Tree, whereon all Poets Clime, And from thy Tender Branches every one Doth take some Fruit, which Fancy feeds upon: But now thy Tree is left so Bare and Poor, That they can hardly gather one Plum more. MARGARETMARGARET CAVENDISHCAVENDISH