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Noble Blood

Who's Afraid of the Duchess of Newcastle (Part One)

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.813.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In 'A Room of One's Own,' Virginia Woolf writes of Margaret Cavendish's reputation: "Evidentally the crazy Duchess became a bogey to frighten clever girls with." Dismisses as mad in her own time, and untalented later, Cavendish remains something of an enigma, a strange proto-feminist, proto-science fiction writer who remained entirely untamed. 

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0:00.0

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0:25.4

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0:26.7

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0:30.1

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0:35.5

Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeart Radio and

0:39.5

Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky. Listener discretion advised. If you've been listening to this show

0:46.9

for a while, you're probably wondering why it's taken me so long to discuss any royal from the

0:53.2

kingdom of Esfi. Really, the truth is, I'm embarrassed.

0:57.9

It's been a real oversight on my part, and I'm taking full responsibility and rectifying it

1:03.9

immediately. Just kidding. I can't take this bit any further, mainly because the notion of England

1:09.8

and France under a single monarchy is too absurd., mainly because the notion of England and France under a single

1:11.3

monarchy is too absurd. That's what the kingdom of Esfi is. It's an acronym for England,

1:18.1

Scotland, France, and Ireland. And it is, in fact, a fictional land in the 1666 proto-science fiction novel The Blazing World.

1:31.5

In the young novel, a young woman from Esfi, ESFI, is kidnapped onto a boat by a spurned lover.

1:40.6

This act angers the gods who blow the boat to the North Pole and spare only the young woman from hypothermia.

1:48.7

From there, the ship floats into a parallel land called the Blazing World, a utopia populated by human animal hybrids who believe the young woman is a goddess.

2:00.5

This new empress, a student of the

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