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The Blazing World and Other Writings
Margaret CavendishThe 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 & uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division & unfair sexual discrimination.
This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love & law work harmoniously together, & Assaulted & Pursued Chastity, which explores the power & freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.
MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–73), was the youngest and minimally educated child of a wealthy Essex family. In 1643, the year after the outbreak of the English Civil War, she became a Maid of Honour to Queen Henrietta Maria, travelling with her into Parisian exile in 1644. There, in 1645, she married the widowed William Cavendish, Marquis (later Duke) of Newcastle (1593–1676), who had been commander of Charles I’s forces in the north, and a well-known patron of arts and letters. The Newcastles lived lavishly on credit in Antwerp from 1648 until the Restoration allowed their return to England in 1660.
Between 1653 & 1668 Margaret Cavendish published a dozen substantial books including poetry, moral tales, speculative fiction, romance, scientific treatises, natural philosophy, familiar letters, closet drama, orations, an autobiographical memoir & a biography of her husband. The sheer quantity & variety of Cavendish’s published writing was unprecedented amongst earlier English women. These publications, & her cultivation of personal singularity, made her an infamous figure both in her own lifetime and since, subverting patriarchal codes of femininity while championing the legitimacy of monarchy.
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