The Blazing World – Margaret Cavendish Free Audiobook

Written by Margaret Cavendish
Read by Lucy Scott
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

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”.

February 11 2022
4 hrs and 7 mins

Full title: The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World