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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Margaret Cavendish
Description: Scientist, novelist, poet, philosopher, feminist, it's 400 years since the birth of Margaret Cavendish.
An extraordinary character in many ways - she lived in a tumultuous time, when ideas around science, religion and the very nature of existence were being challenged and changed. And she had a view on them all. Margaret Cavendish’s writings are vast and broad and yet detailed and thoughtful. However for most of the last 400 years she has languished in obscurity before being rediscovered in the last 40 years and elevated to the status of feminist icon. She was in her time very much the only, an...