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…

Maria Fluart in Hermsprong: Wit, Power and a Radical Heroine

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…