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…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…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…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…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…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…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.
Read More…06 October 2025,
We remember Dame Jilly Cooper, a fearless and much-loved author whose wit, warmth and boldness lit up British literature. Her life reminds us how trailblazing it was—and still is—for women to write on their own terms.
Read More…03 March 2025,
The Oscars remind us that fashion is as dramatic as any film or novel. From couture to personal expression, books about fashion tell fascinating stories—what are your favourites?
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