num_pages: 464
description: 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 andadmirers. 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."
language: English
title: The Female Quixote
titlecomplete: The Female Quixote
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, School, Humor, Romance, 18th Century, Classics, Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 2805
publisher: Oxford University Press