EPISODE · Jun 11, 2020 · 15 MIN
Episode 2: An Unwelcome Guest!
from Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrations · host electric voice theatre
https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/Margaret Cavendish our Unwelcome Guest paid an extraordinary visit to London’s Royal Society on May 30th 1667. Ostensibly the focus of the day was her invitation to view some experiments by their most illustrious fellows, especially the microscopist Robert Hooke. But like the diarist Samuel Pepys, many of the Fellows and the crowds in the streets turned up to ogle Cavendish herself. A notorious celebrity, she was renowned for her outrageous clothes, make-up and behaviour – to say nothing of her poems and controversial scientific publications. This ESSEX WOMAN liked to stand out from the crowd.
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https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/ Margaret Cavendish our Unwelcome Guest paid an extraordinary visit to London’s Royal Society on May 30th 1667. Ostensibly the focus of the day was her invitation to view some experiments by their most illustrious fellows, especially the microscopist Robert Hooke. But like the diarist Samuel Pepys, many of the Fellows and the crowds in the streets turned up to ogle Cavendish herself. A notorious celebrity, she was renowned for her outrageous clothes, mak...
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