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Who was Margaret Cavendish?

  • Birth of Margaret Lucas

    exact birth date unknown
  • First English Civil War

    The start of the First English Civil War which began in 1642. The following series of civil unrest affected Margaret Cavendish and her family immensely.
  • Marriage

    Married William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Exact date in 1645 is unknown.
  • First English Civil War

    The first English Civil War between Parliamentarians and Royalists ended in 1646.
  • Second English Civil War

    The Second English Civil War begins.
  • Second English Civil War ends

  • Third English Civil War begins

  • Third English Civil War ends.

  • Wrote Poems and Fancies

  • wrote The World's Olio

  • Wrote Philosophical and Physical Opinions

  • Wrote A True Relation of the birth, breeding, and life of Margaret Cavendish

  • Wrote Nature's Pictures

  • Wrote Love's Adventures

  • Wrote Plays

  • Wrote Orations of divers sorts

  • Wrote CCXI Socialble Letters

  • Wrote Philosophical Letters

  • Wrote Observations on Experimental Philosophy

  • Wrote The Description of a New World, called the Blazing World

  • First woman to attend a meeting at Royal Society of London

    She was the first woman to attend a meeting at the Royal Society of London in 1667. She debated and discussed with men like Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Robert Boyle.
  • Wrote Grounds of Natural Philosophy

  • Plays, never before printed was published.

  • Time of death