The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox Paperback Book 9780140439878

Beautiful and independent Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father Devoted to reading French romances the young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself This is a parody of the style of Cervantes and a telling and comic depiction of eighteenthcentury English society