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9781851960248
New Blazing World is one of the earliest pieces of science fiction, telling the story of a voyage to a Utopian world. The Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73), a tremendous self-publicist, was fascinated by contemporary science, and wove it into her writings, with her literary and scientific ambition, as well as her overt desire for fame, arousing praise and blame, incredulity and pathos.Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish is the author of 'New Blazing World and Other Writings (Pickering Women's Classics)', published 1992 under ISBN 9781851960248 and ISBN 1851960244.
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