Cavendish, Margaret

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 1962. Cavendish, Margaret. Poems and Fancies. Printed by William Wilson, London. 1664. 

Cavendish, Margaret. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, to which is added, The Description of A New Blazing World (London A. Maxwell, 1666). 

Cavendish, Margaret Poems and Fancies (London F. Martin and F. Allestrye, 1653). 

An equally unsympathetic view of the homunculus is found in an exact contemporary of More s and one who is not usually mentioned for her philosophical restraint. I refer to Margaret Cavendish, whose Epicurean Poems and Fancies appeared in 1653. Cavendish, despite her reputation for eccentricity, was consistently opposed to the claims of alchemy. Her comments on the homunculus are particularly enlightening, for unlike More, she treats the issue of artificial life within the context of the art-nature debate ... 

Although Margaret Cavendish is usually portrayed as having begun her natural philosophy as an atomist and ending it as a vitalist, the two positions are by no means mutually exclusive. See Newman, The Corpuscular Theory ofj. B. Van Helmont and Its Medieval Sources, Vivarium 31(1993), 161-191. 

Douglas Grant, Margaret the First A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) (London Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957), 15-26. 

Anna Battigelli, Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1998), 85-113. 

The case of equine husbandry and training is particularly appropriate, since Margaret s husband, William Cavendish, published a famous New and Extraordinary Method to dress Horses in 1667. 

Cromwell becomes Lord Protector. Margaret Cavendish s Poems, and Fancies. 

Margaret Cavendish s Natures Pictures. Bunyan s first printed work. Some Gospel-truths Opened, against the Quakers. 

Great Fire of London. Margaret Cavendish s Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. To which is added. .. A New Blazing World. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, Bunyan s spiritual autobiography. 

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