The female Quixotes

The Mock-Clelia: being a comical history of French gallantries and novels, in imitation of Dom Quixote. Translated out of French. London : pr. for L.C., and to be sold by S. Neale and C. Blount, 1678. Classmark: Syn.7.67.138

This is the first translation of a French work published at the beginning of the 1670 by A.T. Perdou de Subligny in imitation of Cervantes.  It became a  model for Lennox’ the Female Quixote.

The burlesque The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella,  a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Cervantes and published in 1752, was used as a model by Jane Austen for  Northanger Abbey is also available at the Library at Hib.7.752.46.

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