Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Margaret Cavendish (née Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne NPG D30185

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Pieter Louis van Schuppen, after Abraham Diepenbeeck

The Duchess of Newcastle was a prominent aristocrat with a keen interest in science. She wrote critiques of Descartes, Hobbes and Hooke and an early foray into science fiction, The Description of a New World, called the Blazing-World (1668). Her proposed visit to the Royal Society in 1667 caused much debate among Fellows as to whether a woman's presence would damage the Society's reputation. Her elevated social status won the day and she became the first woman to attend a Society demonstration. Pepys... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.