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The Female Quixote is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox in the 18th century. The story is a satirical take on the popular novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The protagonist, Arabella, is a young woman who has grown up in isolation and has only read romances as her education... Read Full Overview

Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote, or The Adventures of Arabella is part imitation of and part commentary on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote . Written in the mid-eighteenth century, among a rash of Cervantes imitations, Lennox's novel was by far the most popular and enduring... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox

Reproduction of the original: The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox in the 18th century. It tells the story of Arabella, a young woman who has grown up in seclusion, reading only romantic novels. She becomes so enamored with these stories that she begins to see the world around her as... Read Full Overview

Charlotte Lennox, n?e Ramsay (c. 1730 - 4 January 1804) was a Scottish author and poet. She is most remembered now as the author of The Female Quixote and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Richardson, but she had a long career and wrote poetry,... Read Full Overview

The Female Quixote is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox in the 18th century. It tells the story of Arabella, a young woman who has grown up in seclusion and has been raised on a steady diet of romantic novels. As a result, she has developed a skewed view of the world, believing... Read Full Overview

The Female Quixote is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox and published in 1752. The book is a satirical take on the popular novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, but with a female protagonist. The story follows the life of Arabella, a young woman who has spent her entire... Read Full Overview

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