Margaret Cavendish’s brilliant writing was largely neglected in the 1600s

The article does not in fact contain any examples of her brilliant writing, so that we could see for ourselves. But it does contain eight Amazon affiliate links, in case we wanted to pay to read what she wrote in the 1600s.

If you think about it, there have to have been WAY more people who accomplished great writing, theoretical thought, social comentary, even technical advances, that were never recorded in a discoverable way, than the number who are known from history.

Almost all "famous" people where not only men, but from wealthy families, or became the beneficiaries of wealthy patrons.

Even "the" Buddha was a prince. Whould we even have Budhism if he had been born a pauper?

There are certainly examples of people who rose from poverty to become historically significant, but you do have to wonder how many we'll never hear of...

Pretty much every woman's writing, brilliant or otherwise, has been ignored for almost the whole of humanity's existence. I think you'll find that quite a lot of it is still ignored.

Did she write about software or hacking?