29 September 2026,
P-Wave Classics restores Thomas Holcroft's
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor to print in a three-volume edition. Published amid the upheavals of the 1790s, its radical demand for dignity and recognition speaks directly to our own age of transformation. Volume I, edited with notes and an introduction by L.A. Davenport, is published on 19 January 2027 in paperback and ebook.
Read More…14 September 2026,
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…25 August 2026,
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…04 August 2026,
Volume II of Robert Bage’s
Hermsprong is published today in paperback and ebook. The novel’s arguments about rank, authority and women’s independence now move into sharper conflict.
Read More…23 June 2026,
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…22 June 2026,
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…14 June 2026,
Arabella's clothes in
The Female Quixote are beautiful, expensive, and entirely wrong. That is precisely the point.
Read More…08 June 2026,
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…02 June 2026,
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…25 May 2026,
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…12 May 2026,
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…11 May 2026,
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…04 May 2026,
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…21 April 2026,
The Coquette is published today in a new P-Wave Classics edition. Explore its themes, history and continuing relevance through our four-part essay series.
Read More… 20 April 2026,
How Eliza Wharton’s story in
The Coquette has been judged and reinterpreted for over two centuries. A reflection on reputation, morality and the ongoing scrutiny of women’s lives.
Read More…13 April 2026,
Why does
Hermsprong largely ignore London? Robert Bage’s novel challenges the cultural dominance of the capital and gives voice to a growing provincial readership in late eighteenth-century Britain.
Read More…08 April 2026,
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…23 March 2026,
How private letters shaped public reputation in
The Coquette. A reflection on communication, judgement and the fragility of privacy then and now.
Read More…16 March 2026,
Why does Hermsprong insist on travelling everywhere on foot? In late eighteenth-century Britain, walking signalled social rank, and Bage turns that simple act into a quiet challenge to the hierarchy of polite society.
Read More…09 March 2026,
The real-life tragedy behind
The Coquette. How Elizabeth Whitman’s story became one of early America’s most enduring novels.
Read More…02 March 2026,
P-Wave Classics publishes Volume I of Robert Bage’s
Hermsprong (1796), restoring the radical novel to its original three-volume form. A bold satire of privilege and power, newly introduced and annotated.
Read More…09 February 2026,
Why does
The Coquette still matter in 2026? A reflection on reputation, restraint and the limits of female freedom, then and now, as pre-orders open for a new P-Wave Classics edition.
Read More…02 February 2026,
A fresh edition of Hannah Webster Foster’s landmark novel
The Coquette, exploring freedom, judgement and reputation in early America. Featuring rare historical responses and new editorial insight.
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