The Female Quixote Victoria Cass Not unlike the life she

Not unlike the life she recently lost

Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction

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The Female Quixote Victoria Cass Not unlike the life sheA young woman is caught up in her ideas about romance and valor in this celebrated eighteenth century parody of Don Quixote 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