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The Female Quixote

by Charlotte Lennox

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Book I
  3. 3Chapter II
  4. 4Chapter III — In Which the Adventure Goes on After the Accustomed M…
  5. 5Chapter IV
  6. 6Chapter V — In Which One Would Imagine the Adventure Concluded, but…
  7. 7Chapter VI — In Which the Adventure Is Really Concluded; Though, Po…
  8. 8Chapter VII — In Which Some Contradictions Are Very Happily Reconciled
  9. 9Chapter VIII — In Which a Mistake, in Point of Ceremony, Is Rectified
  10. 10Chapter IX — In Which a Lover Is Severely Punished for Faults Which…
  11. 11Chapter X — Contains Several Incidents, in Which the Reader Is Expe…
  12. 12Chapter XI — In Which a Logical Argument Is Unseasonably Interrupted
  13. 13Chapter XII
  14. 14Chapter XIII — The Adventure of the Books Continued
  15. 15Book II
  16. 16Chapter II — Which Contains a Very Natural Incident
  17. 17Chapter III — Which Treats of a Consolatory Visit, and Other Grave…
  18. 18Chapter IV — Which Contains Some Common Occurrences, but Placed in…
  19. 19Chapter V — The History of Miss Groves, Interspersed With Some Very…
  20. 20Chapter VI — Containing What a Judicious Reader Will Hardly Approve
  21. 21Chapter VII — Which Treats of the Olympic Games
  22. 22Chapter VIII — Which Concludes With an Excellent Moral Sentence
  23. 23Chapter IX — Containing Some Curious Anecdotes
  24. 24Chapter X — In Which Our Heroine Is Engaged in a Very Perilous Adve…
  25. 25Chapter XI — In Which the Lady Is Wonderfully Delivered
  26. 26Book III
  27. 27Chapter II — A Solemn Interview
  28. 28Chapter III — In Which the Interview Is Ended, Not Much to the Love…
  29. 29Chapter IV — In Which Our Heroine Is Greatly Disappointed
  30. 30Chapter V — Some Curious Instructions for Relating an History
  31. 31Chapter VI — A Very Heroic Chapter
  32. 32Chapter VII — In Which Our Heroine Is Suspected of Insensibility
  33. 33Chapter VIII — In Which We Hope the Reader Will Be Differently Affe…
  34. 34Book IV
  35. 35Chapter II — In Which a Very Pleasing Conversation Is Left Unfinished
  36. 36Chapter III — Definition of Love and Beauty. The Necessary Qualitie…
  37. 37Chapter IV — In Which Our Heroine Is Engaged in a New Adventure
  38. 38Chapter V — Being a Chapter of Mistakes
  39. 39Chapter VI — In Which the Mistakes Are Continued
  40. 40Chapter VII — In Which the Mistakes Are Not Yet Cleared Up
  41. 41Chapter VIII — Which Contains Some Necessary Consequences of the Fo…
  42. 42Chapter IX — Containing a Love-Letter in the Heroic Style; With Som…
  43. 43Book V
  44. 44Chapter II
  45. 45Chapter III — In Which Our Heroine Is in Some Little Confusion
  46. 46Chapter IV
  47. 47Chapter V — In Which Will Be Found One of the Former Mistakes Pursu…
  48. 48Chapter VI — Containing Some Account of Thalestris, Queen of the Am…
  49. 49Book VI
  50. 50Chapter II — In Which Sir George, Continuing His Surprising History…
  51. 51Chapter III — A Love Adventure, After the Romantic Taste
  52. 52Chapter IV — The Adventure Continued
  53. 53Chapter V — An Extraordinary Instance of Generosity in a Lover, Som…
  54. 54Chapter VI — In Which It Will Be Seen, That the Lady Is as Generous…
  55. 55Chapter VII — Containing an Incident Full as Probable as Any in Scu…
  56. 56Chapter VIII — A Single Combat Fought With Prodigious Valour, and D…
  57. 57Chapter IX — In Which the Reader Will Find a Description of a Beaut…
  58. 58Chapter X — Wherein Sir George Concludes His History; Which Produce…
  59. 59Chapter XI — Containing Only a Few Inferences, Drawn From the Foreg…
  60. 60Book VII
  61. 61Chapter II — Not So Long as Was First Intended; but Contains, Howev…
  62. 62Chapter III — Which Concludes With an Authentic Piece of History
  63. 63Chapter IV — In Which One of Our Heroine’s Whims Is Justified, by S…
  64. 64Chapter V — Containing Some Historical Anecdotes, the Truth of Whic…
  65. 65Chapter VI — Which Contains Some Excellent Rules for Raillery
  66. 66Chapter VII — In Which the Author Condescends to Be Very Minute in…
  67. 67Chapter VIII — Some Reflections Very Fit, and Others Very Unfit, fo…
  68. 68Chapter IX — Being a Chapter of the Satirical Kind
  69. 69Chapter X — In Which Our Heroine Justifies Her Own Notions by Some…
  70. 70Chapter XI — In Which Our Heroine, Being Mistaken Herself, Gives Oc…
  71. 71Chapter XII — In Which Our Heroine Reconciles Herself to a Mortifyi…
  72. 72Chapter XIII — In Which Our Heroine’s Extravagance Will Be Thought,…
  73. 73Chapter XIV — A Dialogue Between Arabella and Lucy, in Which the La…
  74. 74Book VIII
  75. 75Chapter II — In Which Our Heroine, as We Presume, Shows Herself in…
  76. 76Chapter III — The Contrast Continued
  77. 77Chapter IV — In Which Mr. Glanville Makes an Unsuccessful Attempt U…
  78. 78Chapter V — In Which Is Introduced a Very Singular Character
  79. 79Chapter VI — Containing Something Which at First Sight May Possibly…
  80. 80Chapter VII — In Which, If the Reader Has Not Anticipated It, He Wi…
  81. 81Chapter VIII — Which Concludes Book the Eighth
  82. 82Book IX
  83. 83Chapter II — Which Ends With a Very Unfavourable Prediction for Our…
  84. 84Chapter III — In Which Arabella Meets With Another Admirable Adventure
  85. 85Chapter IV — In Which Is Related the History of the Princess of Gaul
  86. 86Chapter V — A Very Mysterious Chapter
  87. 87Chapter VI — Not Much Plainer Than the Former
  88. 88Chapter VII — Containing Indeed No Great Matters, but Being a Prelu…
  89. 89Chapter VIII — Which Acquaints the Reader With Two Very Extraordina…
  90. 90Chapter IX — Which Will Be Found to Contain Information Absolutely…
  91. 91Chapter X — A Short Chapter Indeed, but Full of Matter
  92. 92Chapter XI — Being, in the Author’s Opinion, the Best Chapter in Th…
  93. 93Chapter XII — In Which the History Is Concluded
  94. 94Preface — Volume I.

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