The Blazing World: An Illuminated Edition (Illuminated Editions)

from stillatim

I was very surprised to learn that many people believe Cavendish's work can be summarized, and that you don't need to read it, because the ideas are all that matters. The ideas aren't all that interesting, despite various editors and commentators' attempts to make her a feminist icon or whatever ...

from zeborah

First I'll get out of the way the fact that, like later utopias such as Gulliver's Travels, Erewhon, Looking Backward, etc, this can at times turn into an unbearably tedious cross between fictional ethnography and political manifesto.But that's not important because we all know how to skim. What ...

from behemothing

Ahem: "Written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent PRINCESSE, THE Duchess of Newcastle." It is about a lady who becomes the all-powerful Empress of a parallel world connected to earth via the North Pole. It is a strange and great thing to exist in the world. I could go on about how it...

from behemothing

Ahem: "Written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent PRINCESSE, THE Duchess of Newcastle." It is about a lady who becomes the all-powerful Empress of a parallel world connected to earth via the North Pole. It is a strange and great thing to exist in the world. I could go on about how it...