{"product_id":"9781101489932","title":"The Blazing World and Other Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003e''The whole story of this Lady is a romance, and all she doth is romantic' —Pepys\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlamboyant, theatrical, exuding ambiguous sexuality, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was one of the seventeeth century's most striking figures, experimental in her personality as much as in her prolific writings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth 'The Contract' and 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity' (from \u003cb\u003eNature's Pictures\u003c\/b\u003e, 1656) are romances which play out the empowering possibilities of disguise or masking for women. The centrepiece of this collection is 'The Blazing World', the only known Utopian fiction by a seventeenth century woman writer, an inventive and extravagant portrayal of the rise of a woman to absolute power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Group (USA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120545939696,"sku":"9781101489932","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101489932_p0.jpg?v=1763687472","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101489932","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}