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»This is the first time you have here beheld a Lady, one whose eminent Quality renders her illustrious, whose Wit is at once the Glory & Envy of her Sex, whose Curiosity in the Works of Nature, seems to be, like them, immense […]. She hath convinced the world, by her own heroique Example, that no studies are too hard for her softer Sex, & that Ladies are capable of our admiration as well for their Science as for their Beauty«.1 Als Walter Charleton diese kleine Rede zur Begrüßung seiner Freundin für ihren Besuch in der Royal Society entwarf, war Margaret Cavendish auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer wissenschaftlich-literarischen Karriere angelangt, einer Karriere, die erst möglich geworden war durch das Aufbrechen der sozialen Rollen in Bürgerkrieg und Exil.

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  1. Bathsua Makin, An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, Los Angeles 1980 (1673), S. 3.

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  2. William Wotton, Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, 1697, S. 419.

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Strauß, E.W. (1999). Einführung. In: Die Arithmetik der Leidenschaften. Ergebnisse der Frauenforschung. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-03795-4_1

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