If I am condemned; I shall be annihilated to nothing; but my ambition is such as I would either be a world, or nothing. — Margaret (the inside engraving to one of Margaret's works, image via Wikimedia Commons) As Margaret Cavendish was writing poems, science fiction and 17th century treatises on physics, she also did something radical: she didn't publish under a pseudonym. She continued writing about utopia, dystopia, "modern" innovation (well, modern for then), female experience and philosophy under her own name.
A Woman to Know: Margaret Cavendish
A Woman to Know: Margaret Cavendish
A Woman to Know: Margaret Cavendish
If I am condemned; I shall be annihilated to nothing; but my ambition is such as I would either be a world, or nothing. — Margaret (the inside engraving to one of Margaret's works, image via Wikimedia Commons) As Margaret Cavendish was writing poems, science fiction and 17th century treatises on physics, she also did something radical: she didn't publish under a pseudonym. She continued writing about utopia, dystopia, "modern" innovation (well, modern for then), female experience and philosophy under her own name.