The Female Quixote

A young woman is caught up in her ideas about romance and valor in this celebrated eighteenth-century parody of Don Quixote

Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes forays into fashionable society in Bath and London, many scrapes and mortifications ensue - all men seem like predators...