women's SF history on the Sofa

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Anyone interested in science/SF poetry, proto-SF, and/or women's history should definitely check out eldritchhobbit 's most recent Fact Article: Looking Back Into Genre History on the StarShipSofa podcast, Aural Delights #123. 

This month's article discusses Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne . . . who hung out with the Royal Society of London, wrote poetry about atoms, penned a whole novel about an alien world -- and did all of this back in the seventeenth century.   She even signed her name to her writings, which was Simply Not Done -- at least, not by most women.

I like to think of myself as an SF poet, and I'm not sure I'd even heard of Margaret Cavendish before.  (Blush.)