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Samuel Pepys complained that Margaret Cavendish’s visit to The Royal Society would result in London’s being ‘full of ballads of it’, but Cavendish might have delighted in such a reception by popular print. Pepys himself was an avid collector of these texts, which frequently represent women as capable thinkers and knowers who draw meaning and sustenance from the regular workings of nature. Illuminating the dimensions of an early modern public sphere and what we might now call a biosphere, ballads encourage audiences to envision both settings as appropriate places for women’s collective thought, action, and plans for the future. I argue that Cavendish’s  Blazing World  offers an expensive Folio edition of the methods and assumptions that many ballad women utilize. Drawing upon feminist social theory, ecofeminism, and scholarship about early modern ballads, I also propose that our understanding of natural philosophy and early modern reason should include the stories and findings of women who reason in print.

Women who reason in print: blazing worlds and blameless girls in early modern ballads