Person

Margaret Cavendish

first wife of Robert Dudley, a sister (or a cousin) of Thomas Cavendish

first wife of Robert Dudley, a sister (or a cousin) of Thomas Cavendish

Notable quotes

“The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, and quick apprehension, could not understand; but the more she endeavoured to learn, the more was she confounded”
— Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World (1666)
“Riches is not what we have, but what we enjoy.”
— "An Oration against Usurers and Money-Hoarders", Orations of Divers Sorts (1668), pt. x, p. 224

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