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.
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