Philosopher, playwright, scientist, Margaret Lucas Cavendish ventured into all literary genres. She was the first author to claim the position of women in seventeenth-century England.
Own mind. Selection of Social Letters and Female Speeches brings together pieces that could well be read as essays in the tradition of Michel de Montaigne. With a dazzling irony, Cavendish questions the patriarchal imprint in the customs of domestic life, reveals the traps of motherhood, rivalry in friendship, marriage transactions. Read today, Cavendish impresses with its incredible modernity.