THE FEMALE QUIXOTE
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Updated: 14 Sep 2023
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Created byMiss Marple
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Lennox marriesThe Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of ArabellaShakespear IllustratedHenriettaThe Life of Harriot StuartBirth of her daughter Harriot HollesBirth of her son George LouisDeath of her daughterEuphemiaseparated / divorcedexile of her sonThe History of Sir George Harrington; or, The Political Quixote by the Purbeck sistters, erroneously attributed to LennoxThe Rise of the Novel, Ian WattsThe Art of Coquetry - her best known poem : women using their wiles to enslave men to their empire: ref. to 17th C erotic poem 'Astrea' (Aphra Behn) in contrast with chaste 'Orinda' (Katherine Philips)Clarissa by Samuel RichardsonPamela; or, Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson. considered one of 1st true English novelsFanny Hill - John Cleland - pornographic novel - compared to Female Quixoteapparition of Lennox's name of the cover of The Female QuixotePortraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo
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1778The 'Map of Tendre' by Mme De ScudéryThe Progress of Romance - Clara ReeveMock-Clelia, or Madam Quixote - by de SublignyNorthanger Abbey - Jane AustenAnonymous [Elizabeth Purbeck and Jane Purbeck]. William Thornborough, the benevolent Quixote. In four volumes.1797 [Elizabeth Purbeck and Jane Purbeck]. The history of Sir George Warrington; or the political Quixote. By the author of The female Quixote. In three volumes.1856 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - heavily influenced by Don Quixote. In the view of the critic Howard Mancing, "of all the many female incarnations of Don Quixote, Emma [Bovary] is the most original, profound and influential. Flaubert's admiration for Cervantes knew no bounds. It has been suggested that it was his reading of Don Quixote in childhood which convinced Flaubert to become a novelist rather than a dramatist." In Madame Bovary, the heroine, like Don Quixote, tries to escape from the tedium 1869 The Idiot by Dostoyevsky. Prince Myshkin, the title character of the novel, was explicitly modeled on Don Quixote.Periods
Charlotte Lennox RamsayAstrea - pseudonym for Aphra Behn - British playwright and poetInterregnumOrinda -Katherine Philips - Welsh poet and dramatistSamuel Johnson - author - supporter of Lennox'sSamuel Richardson - author and supporter of Lennox's - Rival to Henry Fielding - Friend of Johnson'sMadame Madeleine De Scudéry 'Sappho' - poet - 'Blue stocking' of France - literary salons - 'preciosité' - romance - coquette - inspiration for Arabella's love of romancePréciositéDon Quixote - CervantesHeroic romancesClélie, Histoire Romaine - de Mme De ScudéryArtamène ou le Grand Cyrus -Mme De ScudéryLa Calprenède - playwright and novelist - heroic romance- influence for TFQRoger Boyles / Lord Broghill - playwright and author of hroic drama - possible ref to TFQReign of George IIReign of George I. Scandalous court arriving from Germany, came with two mistresses, no wife (Sofia imprisoned for adultery). The two mistresses were regularly insulted in the press. Reference to these affairs in the character of Miss groves and her relationship ith the King, which prompted Lennox's publisher to ask for alterations in the novel.Event progress
The Blue Stockings societyThe Stuart Restoration - Reign of Charles II, restoration of monarchy
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