The Blazing World and Other Writings

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Title: The Blazing World and Other Writings
Author: Margaret Cavendish
Year: 1994
ISBN-10: 0140433724
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: £6.99
Pages: 230
Binding: Trade Paperback
Type: Collection
Title Reference: The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World
Notes: First published by Pickering and Chatto, 1992. Edited and with an introduction by Kate Lilley. Penguin Classics reprinted this title in 1994. Aust. $10.95 (recommended). Can. $10.99. U.S.A. $10.95 (back cover). The cover shows a detail from ''Sight'' by Jan Brueghel the Elder in the Prado, Madrid (Photo: MAS) (back cover). The two stories are reprinted from ''Nature's Pictures'' (1656); the back cover calls them "romances which play out the empowering possibilities of disguise or masking for women." Appendix: Notes (p. 226).