Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574206 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Blazing World
Author: Margaret Cavendish
Narrator: Lucy Scott
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Release date: January 18, 2022
Genres: Classics
Publisher's 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'.
