Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish, 1665

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English aristocrat and writer, best known for the biography of her husband, published in 1667.

Quotes

• If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,
  They must in quantity of Matter all agree.
  • 'The weight of Atomes', in The Atomic Poems of Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, from her Poems, and Fancies, 1653, an electronic edition. Edited with an introduction by Leigh Tillman Partington.

• The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, and quick apprehension, could not understand; but the more she endeavoured to learn, the more was she confounded
  • Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World (1666)

External links

• Works of Margaret Cavendish