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Margaret Cavendish: scandalous 17th-century writer
History Extra podcast
Margaret Cavendish and 'The Blazing World'
This chapter discusses the 17th-century writer Margaret Cavendish and her work 'The Blazing World'. The chapter explores how the book can be seen as a utopian proto-feminist track, following the story of a woman who gets kidnapped, rescued, and transported to another world connected to our world at the North Pole. In this new world, she becomes an Empress and explores it with anthropomorphic animal-like figures.
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