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🗓️ 12 August 2025
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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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0:46.9 | 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. |
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