The Female Quixote
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The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella is a comic novel by Scottish writer Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two ye
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Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Shewing, the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Childr
The Female Quixote
…Northanger Abbey. It has been called a burlesque, "satirical harlequinade", and a depiction of the real power of females. Norma Clarke has ranked it with Clarissa, Tom Jones and Roderick Random as one of the "defining texts in the development of the novel in the eighteenth century". Lady Arabella, the heroine of…
The villain, Robert Lovelace, abducting Clarissa Harlowe
Picture from "Lettres angloises, ou histoire de Miss Clarisse Harlove" (1751)