NH: Oh, goody. Then maybe you can explain my sig file to the person on
this list (sorry; don't have your name in front of me, and am not adept
enough at e-mail to move between files) who asked me what it meant. I am
no expert in English of the period and my dad, who was, is dead. I only
have a vague, intuitive sense of its meaning. Only heard of Margaret
Cavendish a few days ago, when Helen Merrick--lurking on this list--sent
me a copy of _She's Fantastical,- an antho of sf by Australian women.
Have to find out more about Cavendish when I surface from Tiptree reading.
-nalo
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Michael Marc Levy wrote:
> Having spent 35 years of my life consorting with SF people, and a
> smaller, but still significant part of my life hanging out with
> feminists, without ever hearing the name of Margaret Cavendish
> (1623-1673) invoked, I think that it's amazing that the authors of two
> consecutive, but unrelated posts, Anastasia and Nalo, have mentioned her. I
> did part of my dissertation on her fantasy poetry.
>
> Mike Levy
>
"Straight she's fantastical, they all do cry."
-Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle,
"Nature's Pictures," 1656
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