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by Margaret Cavendish (Author), Kate Lilley (Introduction) "A noble gentleman that had been married many years, but his wife being barren, did bear him no children; at last she died, and his..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (28 April 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140433724
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140433722
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 93,632 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.


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Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 - 1673). A Royalist during English Civil War, Margaret Lucas was Maid of Honor to Queen Henrietta Maria from 1643 to 1645. She wrote a total of fourteen works on a broad selection of topics: scientific and philosophical treatises, science fiction, a biography, an autobiography, essays, letters, poetry, "orations", and several plays. Kate Lilley was born in Perth. She completed her doctorate on Masculine Elegy at the University of London and went on to postdoctoral research at St Hilda's College, Oxford as the Julia Mann Junior Research Fellow. She now teaches Literary History and Critical Theory at the University of Sydney. She has published many essays on contemporary Australian and American poetry, especially the work of John Tranter, and on 17th century women's writing.

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A noble gentleman that had been married many years, but his wife being barren, did bear him no children; at last she died, and his friends did advise him to marry again, because his brother's children were dead, and his wife was likely to have no more: so he took to wife a virtuous young Lady, and after one year she conceived with child, and great joy there was of all sides: but in her child-bed she died, leaving only one daughter to her sorrowful husband, who in a short time, oppressed with melancholy, died, and left his young daughter, who was not a year old, to the care and breeding of his brother, and withal left her a great estate, for he was very rich. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars First sub-creationist, 7 Aug 2009
By Ian Dall "Ian Dall" (Denmark) - See all my reviews
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A collection of the fantastic fiction of Princess Margaret of Newcastle, Imperiatrix of worlds! Whilst Lady Margaret herself is an essential component of English litterature, this version unfortunatly concentrates on her less-polished "witty" fantastic pieces, & not enough on the philosophical buildup that terminates in her tremendous Blazing World.
The Lady herself is worth VI stars!
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