SOURCE: "The Spider's Delight: Margaret Cavendish and the 'Female' Imagination," in English Literary Renaissance, Vol. 14, No. 3, Autumn, 1984, pp. 392-408.
In the following essay, Bowerbank views the controversial "eccentricities" of Cavendish's literary productions as reflections of what the author considered to be her "true wit," her femininity, and her philosophy of nature.
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