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.

• Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Margaret Cavendish POETRY FROM POEMS AND FANCIES Of Many Worlds in this World The Soul's Garment Of Stars Motion Directs, While Atoms Dance Motion Makes Atoms a Bawd for Figure Nature Calls a Council, Which is Motion, Figure, Matter, and Life To Advise About Making the World A Dialogue Betwixt Riches and Poverty Of the Ant Of the Knowledge of Beasts Of Fish Earth's Complaint The Clasp The Hunting of the Hare Nature's Oven Nature's [Wine] Cellar A Dialogue Between an Oak, and a Man Cutting it Down from 'A Dialogue betwixt Birds' STORIES The Blazing World The Travelling Spirits The Ambitious Traitor Assaulted and Pursued Chastity PROSE from Orations of Diverse Sorts from Sociable Letters from 'A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life' PLAYS The Unnatural Tragedy The Convent of Pleasure Explanatory Notes

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