Margaret Lucas Cavendish (1623 - 1673), was a philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and drama writer of the seventeenth century. Her work is an early and adaptable version of naturalism that is still in philosophy and science today. It has greatly helped to popularize the idea of a scientific revolution. As the first known female philosopher in England, she strongly advocated the education of women and their inclusion in science, for which she had problems and was criticized. The contemporaries resented her, because she as a woman published her works and writings and was not signed by any other name.
