Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural
seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French
romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of
misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she
makes forays into fashionable society in Bath and London, many
scrapes and mortifications ensue - all men seem like predators
wishing to ravish her, she mistakes a cross-dressing prostitute for
a distressed gentlewoman, and she risks her life by throwing
herself into the Thames to avoid a potential seducer. Can Arabella
be cured of her romantic delusions? An immediate success when it
first appeared in 1752, The Female Quixote is a wonderfully
high-spirited parody of the style of Cervantes, and a telling and
comic depiction of eighteenth-century English society.
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