
Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives.

Introduction: Women, Education and the Margins of Science; J.A.Hayden Foreshadowing Frankenstein; S.Hutton Lucy Hutchinson and the Lucretian Body: Dreams of Order and Disorder; A.Snider Margaret Cavendish, Jan Baptiste van Helmont, and the Madness of the Womb; J.Broad Disability,...