Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. This is a parody of the style of Cervantes, and a telling and comic depiction of eighteenth-century English society.

Little is definitively known about Charlotte Lennox (1730?-1804) before the publication of her novels and poetry other than she was probably born in Gibraltar to the English captain-lieutenant, James Ramsay, and moved to New York when she was ten. It is thought that she spent much of her childhood reading romance novels as a solution to the boredom of living at small frontier outposts. She was particularly drawn to Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote", and in 1752 she published "The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella" to enthusiastic reception. The work is part imitation and part commentary on the original, casting a privileged young daughter of a marquis, Arabella, as the novel's heroine. Just like Don Quixote, Arabella embarks on a series of adventures in the countryside, all the while mistakenly thinking herself to be the archetypal maiden of a Romance. This novel served as the basis for Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey".

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Published in December 1750, Charlotte Lennox's The life of Harriot Stuart, written by herself is about the flirtatious attitude of the title character. Presenting her character and life style, the work is at time claimed to be autobiographical; it is hard for the critics to separate the narrator, the heroine and the authoress of the novel...read more

Product Description: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752) is a witty romance novel. The story revolves around the aristocratic Arabella, who has been raised in complete seclusion from the real world and who becomes hopelessly tangled up in the romantic fictions she adores...read more

Product Description: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752) is a witty romance novel. The story revolves around the aristocratic Arabella, who has been raised in complete seclusion from the real world and who becomes hopelessly tangled up in the romantic fictions she adores...read more

Product Description: Published in December 1750, Charlotte Lennox's The life of Harriot Stuart, written by herself is about the flirtatious attitude of the title character. Presenting her character and life style, the work is at time claimed to be autobiographical; it is hard for the critics to separate the narrator, the heroine and the authoress of the novel...read more

Product Description: Published in December 1750, Charlotte Lennox's The life of Harriot Stuart, written by herself is about the flirtatious attitude of the title character. Presenting her character and life style, the work is at time claimed to be autobiographical; it is hard for the critics to separate the narrator, the heroine and the authoress of the novel...read more

This 18th century novel revolves around the life of its female protagonist who lets her imagination rule the better part of her personality.

Product Description: Published in December 1750, Charlotte Lennox's The life of Harriot Stuart, written by herself is about the flirtatious attitude of the title character. Presenting her character and life style, the work is at time claimed to be autobiographical; it is hard for the critics to separate the narrator, the heroine and the authoress of the novel...read more

This 18th century novel revolves around the life of its female protagonist who lets her imagination rule the better part of her personality.

Product Description: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752) is a witty romance novel. The story revolves around the aristocratic Arabella, who has been raised in complete seclusion from the real world and who becomes hopelessly tangled up in the romantic fictions she adores...read more

An outstanding novel, it presents the enigmatic vision of self-creation in the eighteenth century.

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752) is a witty romance novel. The story revolves around the aristocratic Arabella, who has been raised in complete seclusion from the real world and who becomes hopelessly tangled up in the romantic fictions she adores...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more