Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining
writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres,
challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as
the mores of society. "Paper Bodies" was the wonderful phrase she
used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue
to make "a great Blazing Light" after her death. There are
connections here to Cavendish's most famous work, The Description
of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a
woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world. In
addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish's
brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life
(1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her
Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety
of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps
to set her work in context for the modern reader.
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