The Female Quixote Volume I Is Now Available

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…