Volume II of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote is published today, completing the P-Wave Classics edition of one of the eighteenth century's most witty and intellectually provocative novels. As Arabella is taken out of her father's castle and into a society she has only ever read about, the comedy sharpens and the novel's most searching questions about imagination, independence and the cost of becoming sensible move to their celebrated resolution. Read More…

Volume II of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote brings Arabella out of seclusion and into an ever-widening collision with the society she has only ever read about. Published on 15 September, it completes a P-Wave Classics edition of one of the eighteenth century's most witty, surprising and intellectually provocative novels. Read More…

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…

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'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…

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…

To celebrate its launch, a reflection on Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote and the enduring power of books to shape imagination, expectation and desire. Exploring Arabella’s world, where fiction and reality collide with surprising and unsettling consequences. Read More…