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The Female Quixote: The Adventures of Arabella

The Female Quixote: The Adventures of Arabella

Lennox, Charlotte

Paperback

Series: Classic Satire

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1726244385
ISBN13: 9781726244381
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 27 2018
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.54 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The Female Quixote or, The Adventures of Arabella by Charlotte Lennox. Two Volumes in One. Revised and Corrected. The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two years after she wrote her first novel, The Life of Harriot Stuart, it was her best-known and most-celebrated work. Arabella, the heroine of the novel, was brought up by her widowed father in a remote English castle, where she reads many French romance novels, and imagining them to be historically accurate, expects her life to be equally adventurous and romantic. When her father died, he declared that she would lose part of her estate if she did not marry her cousin Glanville. After imagining wild fantasies for herself in the country, she visits Bath and London. Glanville is concerned at her mistaken ideas, but continues to love her, while Sir George Bellmour, his friend, attempts to court her in the same chivalric language and high-flown style as in the novels. When she throws herself into Thames in an attempt to flee from horsemen whom she mistakes to be ravishers in an imitation of Clélie, she becomes weak and ill. This action might have been inspired by the French satire The Mock-Clielia, in which the heroine rode at full speed towards the great Canal which she took for the Tyber, and wherein to she threw her self, that she might swim over in imitation of Clelia whom she believed herself to be.

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