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  • Published: 9 May 1994
  • ISBN: 9780141904825
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

The Blazing World and Other Writings




Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.

  • Published: 9 May 1994
  • ISBN: 9780141904825
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Other books in the series

On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

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