The Blazing World and Other Writings

Lisa Walters is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science and Politics (2014) and co-editor of Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (2022). Dr Walters is also one of the joint editors of the Restoration section of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing.

• IntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Margaret CavendishPOETRY FROM POEMS AND FANCIESOf Many Worlds in this WorldThe Soul's GarmentOf StarsMotion Directs, While Atoms DanceMotion Makes Atoms a Bawd for FigureNature Calls a Council, Which is Motion, Figure, Matter, and Life To Advise About Making the WorldA Dialogue Betwixt Riches and PovertyOf the AntOf the Knowledge of BeastsOf FishEarth's ComplaintThe ClaspThe Hunting of the HareNature's OvenNature's [Wine] CellarA Dialogue Between an Oak, and a Man Cutting it Downfrom 'A Dialogue betwixt Birds'STORIESThe Blazing WorldThe Travelling SpiritsThe Ambitious TraitorAssaulted and Pursued ChastityPROSEfrom Orations of Diverse Sortsfrom Sociable Lettersfrom 'A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life'PLAYSThe Unnatural TragedyThe Convent of PleasureExplanatory Notes