| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 07 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Dover thrift editions.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Lucy Scott. |
| Summary |
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'. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Utopias -- Fiction.
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Voyages, Imaginary -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Scott, Lucy.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781781983980 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1781983984 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14909898 |
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