Arabella's clothes in
The Female Quixote are beautiful, expensive, and entirely wrong. That is precisely the point.
Read More…Arabella does not merely read romances, she lives inside them. Charlotte Lennox's novel explores how stories shape identity, perception, and our understanding of reality itself.
Read More…Why is
Hermsprong being published in three volumes? The answer reveals how novels were originally written, published and read in the late eighteenth century.
Read More…Charlotte Lennox’s
The Female Quixote is often described as a female version of
Don Quixote. But Arabella’s romance-shaped imagination reveals something far stranger — and more unsettling — about the world around her.
Read More…Volume I of Robert Bage’s
Hermsprong is published today by P-Wave Classics. A radical satire of class, gender and social hypocrisy, restored to its original three-volume form.
Read More…What did education prepare women for in the 1790s: thought, work or marriage? In
Hermsprong, Robert Bage exposes the assumptions that kept women praised in theory but constrained in practice.
Read More…Maria Fluart is not merely a strong heroine, she is a problem for polite society. In
Hermsprong, Robert Bage uses wit and humour to expose the limits placed on women in the 1790s.
Read More…P-Wave Classics are made to be read, not merely admired from a distance. Here’s why our editions use compact paperbacks, readable type, standard paperback paper and restored volume structures where appropriate.
Read More…The Coquette is published today in a new P-Wave Classics edition. Explore its themes, history and continuing relevance through our four-part essay series.
Read More… How Eliza Wharton’s story in
The Coquette has been judged and reinterpreted for over two centuries. A reflection on reputation, morality and the ongoing scrutiny of women’s lives.
Read More…