1. Mary Evelyn to Ralph Bohun [April 1667]; in John Evelyn, Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. William Bray, 4 vols. (London: H. Colburn, 1857), vol. 4, 9.
2. See Frances Harris, “Living in the Neighbourhood of Science: Mary Evelyn, Margaret Cavendish and the Greshamites,” in Women, Science and Medicine 1500–1700, ed. Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton (Stroud: Sutton, 1997), 198–217, especially 200.
3. See Susan James, “The Philosophical Innovations of Margaret Cavendish,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7.2 (June 1999): 219–44.
4. Jacqueline Broad, “Margaret Cavendish and Joseph Glanvill: Science, Religion, and Witchcraft,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A 38.3 (September 2007): 493–505.
5. Stephen Clucas, “Variation, Irregularity and Probabilism: Margaret Cavendish and Natural Philosophy as Rhetoric,” in A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, ed. Stephen Clucas (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), 199–209. Clucas describes Cavendish as a “matchless representative of some of the most forward-thinking philosophy of her day” (207).