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By Jacqueline Broad

Jacqueline huge explores the writings of such ladies philosophers as Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Mary Astell and Catherine Trotter Cockburn. large demonstrates their relevance to present feminist scholarship. Her e-book is an obtainable examine of thinkers whose significance to the historical past of philosophy is more and more well-known.

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She was given no tuition in the learned languages, and nor did she receive any formal education in philosophy or science. But in  she became a maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria, and followed her into exile in . In Paris, Margaret met William Cavendish (later the Duke of Newcastle), whom she married in  following a brief courtship.  The members of this group, known as the ‘Cavendish’ or ‘Newcastle Circle’, included the Duke’s brother, Charles Cavendish, as well as Thomas Hobbes, Kenelm Digby, and Walter Charleton.

On this topic and the ancient Aristotelian--Galenic theory of women’s temperament, see Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has No Sex? : Harvard University Press, ), pp. --; and Merry E. Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ), pp. --. See John P. Wright, ‘Hysteria and Mechanical Man’, Journal of the History of Ideas  (), --. Margaret Cavendish, Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts: With an Appendix containing Five Parts, with an introduction by Colette V.

On this topic and the ancient Aristotelian--Galenic theory of women’s temperament, see Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has No Sex? : Harvard University Press, ), pp. --; and Merry E. Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ), pp. --. See John P. Wright, ‘Hysteria and Mechanical Man’, Journal of the History of Ideas  (), --. Margaret Cavendish, Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts: With an Appendix containing Five Parts, with an introduction by Colette V.

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