The Female Quixote : or The Adventures of Arabella (Oxford World's Classics)
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The Female Quixote, a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a marquis, whose passion for reading romances colors her approach to her own life and causes many comical and melodramatic misunderstandings among her relatives and admirers. Both Joseph Fielding and Samuel Johnson greatly admired Lennox, and this novel established her as one of the most successful practitioners of the "Novel of Sentiment."
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From her earliest Youth she had discovered a Fondness for Reading, which extremely delighted the Marquis; he permitted her therefore the Use of his Library, in which, unfortunately for her, were great Store of Romances, and, what was still more unfortunate, not in the original French, but very bad Translations.
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The Female Quixote: or The Adventures of Arabella (Oxford World's Classics),Charlotte Lennox,Duncan Isles,Margaret Dalziel,Margaret Anne Doody,Oxford University Press, USA,0192835726,Classics,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Literature: Classics,19th century fiction,English,Fiction / Classics,Literature/English | British Literature | 19th C,Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries
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