Cavendish+Biography3

=The Life of a Scientific Lady = =It all started on 1623 when Sir Thomas Lucas and his wife Elizabeth gave birth to their eighth child Margaret. All of the children were taught the importance of both reading and writing. Margaret wanted to be known as both a wit and a beauty, so she began writing at an early age. Her first attempt at writing consisted of short stories she called baby books. She wrote sixteen of them, and the shortest ones contain only one to two pages. After the civil war broke out she fled into further exile to france in 1644. This was hard on her because it was the first real seperation from her family.In France Margaret met William Cavendish, the first duke of Newcastle, and the couple then decided to get married in 1645. During this time she received lesson about science and philosophy, from both her husband and his brother. She then began to spend her nights writing her first book a collection of poems called Poems and Fancies. Though this book recieved much praise the critics still tore her down for her spelling and grammer problems. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle died on December 15th 1673 at the age of fifty.= ==