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This article surveys scholarship about Margaret Cavendish and reviews several recent attempts to understand Margaret Cavendish's critique of empirical science in terms of her commitment to a feminist social agenda. The publications under review here are: Anna Battigelli, Margaret Cavendish and the Exhiles of the Mind, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998; Eve Keller, “Producing Petty God's: Margaret Cavendish's Critique of Experimental Science”, English Literary History 64, 1997; Sylvia Brown, “Margaret Cavendish: Strategies Rhetorical and Philosophical Against the Charge of Wantonness, Or Her Excuses for Writing So Much”, Critical Matrix: Princeton Working Papers in Women's Studies 6, 1991; and Lisa Sarasohn, “A Science Turned Upside Down: Feminism and the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish”, Huntington Library Quarterly 47, 1984.
