The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part
feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where
she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war,
religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also
includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously
together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power
and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.
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