Headlong Hall: Peacock’s Comic Laboratory

Headlong Hall is Peacock’s first comic experiment: a country-house gathering where every guest seems to have a theory. The joke is not that ideas are foolish, but that clever people so often turn partial truths into complete systems. Read More…

Publisher Direct Pricing Comes to P-Wave Press

P-Wave Press has introduced permanent Publisher Direct pricing for print books in the UK and USA, alongside a redesigned 'Where to Buy' section across the catalogue. We're also delighted to announce that the No Way Home novellas and Sunlight are once again available as ebooks from major online retailers. Read More…

The Female Quixote Volume I Is Now Available | P-Wave Classics

Volume I of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote is now available in a restored two-volume edition from P-Wave Classics. Discover one of the eighteenth century's most original and thought-provoking heroines. Read More…

The Price of Becoming Sensible: Arabella's Cure in The Female Quixote

Arabella's cure appears to restore order and common sense. Yet The Female Quixote leaves open a more troubling question: what is lost when imagination yields to reality? Read More…

Arabella Refuses to Dress Properly: Clothing and Femininity in The Female Quixote

Arabella's clothes in The Female Quixote are beautiful, expensive, and entirely wrong. That is precisely the point. Read More…

Arabella Lives Inside Fiction: Reading, Reality and The Female Quixote

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 Published in Three Volumes?

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…

The Female Quixote Is Not a Female Don Quixote

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…

Why Hermsprong Still Matters: Publication Day for Volume I

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…

Women, Education and Equality in Hermsprong

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…