Project Gutenberg 2015-09-25 Public domain in the USA. 1162 Lennox, Charlotte 1804 Lennox, Charlotte Ramsay The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 Reading ease score: 53.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. Clare Graham and Marc D'Hooghe "The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella" by Charlotte Lennox is a novel written in the early 18th century. The story follows Arabella, a young woman whose romantic notions, influenced by the romances she reads, lead her to engage in various misinterpretations and misunderstandings about love and courtship. The narrative offers a satirical exploration of female desire and social expectations through Arabella's unrealistic expectations from romance and her interactions with the men around her, including her cousin, Mr. Glanville. At the start of the novel, the reader is introduced to Arabella, raised in isolation by her father, the Marquis, after the death of her mother. The opening chapters describe her sheltered life, her beauty, and the excessive romantic ideals fed to her by her novels, leading to her belief in overdramatic romantic scenarios. Arabella's first encounter with Mr. Hervey at church sparks her imagination, leading her to mistakenly believe he is an admirer destined to seek her hand. As her father plans to marry her off to her cousin Glanville, Arabella's confusion about love and societal norms unfolds through her comical interactions with both men and her reckless insistence on adhering to the conventions portrayed in her beloved books. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Adventure stories England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction Young women -- England -- Fiction Romances -- Appreciation -- Fiction Fiction -- Appreciation -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 913367 913305 2024-10-21T03:48:05.424746 2023-09-21T13:40:15.631163 text/html text/html 919880 2021-06-21T12:14:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 453637 2021-06-21T12:17:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 521886 2024-10-21T03:48:15.125700 application/epub+zip 533346 2024-10-21T03:48:06.601728 application/epub+zip 406860 2024-10-21T03:48:06.022730 application/epub+zip 787264 2024-10-21T03:48:22.111673 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 760638 2024-10-21T03:48:14.510721 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 634308 2022-09-22T16:00:02.003393 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 873871 873858 2024-10-21T03:48:03.281760 2023-09-21T13:40:14.027188 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 873557 2021-06-21T12:15:53 text/plain; charset=utf-8 308475 2021-06-21T12:16:45 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 20646 2024-10-21T03:48:22.247824 application/rdf+xml 15768 2024-10-21T03:48:06.136738 image/jpeg 2874 2024-10-21T03:48:06.080702 image/jpeg 456940 2024-10-21T03:48:05.504743 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia