Abstract
Margaret Cavendish's 1656 work Natures Pictures may be read, in the light of the short prose passage, Heavens Library, which is Fames Palace purged from Errors and Vices, as a text wherein Platonic theories about generic ideals and literary structure are manipulated for political ends. Genre provides an expedient literary disguise for Cavendish, the exiled royalist wishing to condemn the Interregnum regime. In her eclectic adaptation of Plato's ideas, she experiments with ostensibly unproblematic generic categories not only in order to critique dominant Puritan discourses, but also in a way symptomatic of her anxieties about her status as a woman writer with, in reality, minimal control over her destiny and her text.
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