Margaret Cavendish (1623 to 1673), born Margaret Lucas in Colchester, Essex, was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright. She had no formal education but read widely, and she married William Cavendish in 1645 while in exile in France with the court of Queen Henrietta Maria. Her work lays out an early and compelling naturalism and a materialist account of nature in which the bodies around us may be minded and intelligent. Her books include Worlds Olio and Grounds of Natural Philosophy. She anticipated views more often associated with Thomas Hobbes and David Hume, and she was buried at Westminster Abbey.
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Margaret Lucas was born in 1623 in Colchester, Essex.
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She died in December 1673 and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
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Margaret Lucas Cavendish was a philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright
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Margaret Cavendish was born in 1623 and died in 1673.
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Margaret Cavendish (1623 - 1673) was an English philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Early Modern Philosophy.
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