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Margaret Cavendish was a 17th-century English philosopher, poet, playwright, and prose writer who published extensively under her own name. Her Observations upon Experimental Philosophy challenged mechanical accounts of nature and accompanied her fictional work The Blazing World. She also questioned restrictions placed on women's education and intellectual participation, making her work relevant to readers of early modern philosophy, literature, science, and gender history.
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