The Works of The Charlotte Lennox: The Female Quixote, or the Adventures of Arabella, Sophia, Eliza, or the History of Miss Granville. - Softcover

Lennox, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1704717477 ISBN 13: 9781704717470

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

This volume contains three wonderful books by Charlotte Lennox, the Scottish author and poet, most remembered as the author of The Female Quixote (included in this volume) and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Richardson. She had a long career and wrote poetry, prose, and drama. The three important works that we have included in this volume are: THE FEMALE QUIXOTE; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF ARABELLA;. This classic formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden love of a Romance. While the don thinks it his duty to praise the Platonically pure damsels he meets (such as the farm girl he loves), so Arabella believes it is in her power to kill with a look and it is the duty of her lovers to suffer ordeals on her behalf. The other two great novels included are pieces previously very difficult to find. The language has been mostly retain, although some has been modernized, including the use of the ancient f for s. SOPHIA ; ELIZA, OR, THE HISTORY OF MISS GRANVILLE.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1704717477
• ISBN 13: 9781704717470
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 401