Quixotic Authority : The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen - Jodi L. Wyett Publication Date:31/03/2026 Now available in an exclusive

Now available in an exclusive deluxe edition

North for the border

the land of the blessed ones

author of Assassin's Apprentice'One of the modern masters of heroic fantasy' - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Quixotic Authority : The Female Quixote and the Woman Writer, Lennox to Austen - Jodi L. Wyett Publication Date:31/03/2026 Now available in an exclusiveQuixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women's professional writing and cultural commentary from the mid eighteenth to the mid nineteenth century. The trope of quixotism, what we might today call "fangirling," had distinctly gendered implications, as the female quixote was almost exclusively associated with uncritical, overly absorptive novel reading, and often portrayed as a self