Female Quixote or the Adventures of Arabella

The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her into all manner of misunderstandings. Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an excellent introduction and full explanatory notes, this edition will be of particular interest to students of women's literature, and of theeighteenth-century novel.Lennox, Charlotte is the author of 'Female Quixote or the Adventures of Arabella ' with ISBN 9780192835727 and ISBN 0192835726.