She rode through London in a coach pulled by eight white bulls, wore dresses that scandalized Samuel Pepys into near-incoherence, and published critiques of both Hobbes and Descartes. She also wrote science fiction 152 years before *Frankenstein*. Her name was Margaret Cavendish — the woman who kept writing the future while her century tried to close the door.

https://oddlet.com/p/5cb

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World

“… a woman from the Kingdom of ESFI (a combined version of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland) is kidnapped by a spurned lover. The angry gods blow the boat transporting them to the North Pole, where its crew dies. The woman is the lone survivor, and she finds a portal into a parallel world. It is inhabited by human–animal hybrids who mistake her for a goddess and choose her as their new empress.”

The Blazing World - Wikipedia

@stepheneb @lovableweirdo That reminds me of a fun play I saw a few years back about a Victorian woman leading an expedition - using a high speed airship, of course - to discover the West Pole. (The Explorers Club by Nell Benjamin)