The Female Quixote, Or, the Adventures of Arabella (Paperback)

from amerynth

Charlotte Lennox's "The Female Quixote, or The Aventures of Arabella" is a somewhat amusing tale of a woman who lets her romantic notions rule the day with disastrous results. The heroine of the novel, Arabella, has lived a reclusive life and has been fed a steady diet of romantic French novels, ...

from elephant_issues

Arabella is the daughter of a reclusive nobleman who, cut off from the outside world, learns about society and social expectations by reading the romances and romantic histories in her deceased mother's library. Comic antics ensue when she is courted by a young man, who finds himself subjected to...

from bhowell

This is a highly amusing and clever book, a clear jab at the inadequacy of female education in the author's time (18th century) but it is hard going in places. Arabella grows up in her father's remote castle and reads nothing but popular French romantic novels. It is a poor substitute for an educ...

from japaul22

This novel was written in the 1750s and is a satire of Don Quixote. The main character, Arabella, is a beautiful, charming, wealthy woman who unfortunately grows up very isolated and therefore reads too many French historical romances about ancient Greece and Rome which she believes in completely...

from startingover

The heroine of this novel is Arabella, whose early life has been spent in the secluded home of her father, her mother having died giving birth to Arabella. Much of her time has been spent reading 'romances' - which, in an 18th century context, refers to historically-based stories of tragic heroin...