The Changing Image of the Sciences by Albert Helden & Cornelis Pater & Teun Koetsier & Ida H. Stamhuis

Author:Albert Helden & Cornelis Pater & Teun Koetsier & Ida H. Stamhuis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien 2012
Published: 2014-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

Portraits of Margaret Cavendish and the frontispieces commissioned for her publications emphasize by dress and demeanor the aristocratic standing that she enhanced through her marriage. Both she and her husband had the leisure to write plays, poetry, letters, and natural philosophy. Although childless, she was stepmother to her husband’s children. A stylized family scene is set beside a roaring fire where a bottom note says that the characters tell “tales of pleasure and of witt” (Figure 2). Here, too, she appears thin and unimposing, a contrast to the rather bold intellectual identity she established through her pen. The scene is a domestic one, a persistent theme in representations of women in science, and juxtaposed as the frontispiece to a book by a strong-minded woman.18 Figure 2. Margaret Cavendish is in the front right with her husband, both wearing laurel leaves, together with other members of the Cavendish family. This is the frontispiece from Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life (London, 1656). Permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.

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