![]() ![]() ![]() As punishment, the gods blow the merchant’s ship toward the North Pole, where the Lady’s world meets “another Pole of another world.” The merchant and his crew freeze to death, but the Lady survives. As Cavendish explains in her author’s note, she published the fanciful Blazing World alongside her more rigorous Observations upon Experimental Philosophy in order to show how fiction can help writers and readers alike explore philosophical ideas and enjoy themselves.Īt the beginning of The Blazing World, a lustful merchant kidnaps the young Lady, hoping to make her marry him. While frequently called utopian feminist literature, an early novel, and a work of science fiction, The Blazing World was actually published long before any of these genres formed-and it helped shape them in the first place. ![]() Margaret Cavendish’s 17th-century tale The Blazing World follows a young Lady who becomes the all-powerful Empress of a fantastical parallel world, where everything from popular religion to the laws of nature is radically different-and better-than in our own. ![]()
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