After centuries of lost interest, Margaret Cavendish became popular in the 1980s, when rediscovered and analysed from a modern feminist perspective. Since then there have been nine book-length critical studies of her and a biography written in 1957, which can be found here. There have been many attempts to justify her eccentricity with a historical lens. She has also gained fame as one of the first female science-fiction writers, with her utopian novel "The Blazing World". Her self inserted as a character named Margaret Cavendish in "The Blazing World" is said to be among the earliest examples of the modern Mary Sue trope. More recently, her plays have been examined in performance studies, for blurring the lines between performance and literature, challenging gender identities and upsetting gender norms. Further analysis on Cavendish appears here.