50 pages 1 hour read

Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1752

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Essay Topics

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Can The Female Quixote be read through a feminist lens? What does the novel have to say about gender, femininity, and masculinity?

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Imagine a contemporary version of The Female Quixote. What genre would your protagonist become obsessed with? How would this obsession play out in 21st-century society

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Charlotte Lennox was Scottish and grew up in Gibraltar, a British colony in Spain. Is her outsider status reflected in The Female Quixote? How might her experiences growing up outside of England have affected her point of view?