The Blazing World

Born in 1623 as the youngest child of a wealthy Essex family Margaret Cavendish became a Maid of Honour to Queen Henrietta Maria before going on to marry the widowed William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle. She was a prolific writer whose work encompassed a range of genres including poetry moral tales romance scientific treatises philosophy drama and biography. Pepys wrote of her: The whole story of this Lady is a romance and all she doth is romantic.The Blazing World is part fiction and part feminist text in which a lady is shipwrecked and seeks to ensure that the Blazing World in which she finds herself is transformed into a Utopia - free of war sexual discrimination and religious discord. It is a fascinating and extravagant combination of what the author herself calls ‘romancical philosophical and fantastical.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.