The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
'The whole story of this Lady is a romance, and all she doth is romantic' —Pepys Flamboyant, theatrical, exuding ambiguous sexuality, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was one of the seventeeth century's most striking figures, experimental in her personality as much as in her prolific writings. Both 'The Contract' and 'Assaulted and Pursued Chas More »