Comments on: Antique Advice from The Married Lady’s Companion: When your daughter falls in love /antique-advice-when-your-daughter-falls-in-love/ On a Quest to Understand the History of Historical Romance Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:28:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Pamela Andrews /antique-advice-when-your-daughter-falls-in-love/#comment-16 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:28:31 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=535#comment-16 In reply to Laura Vivanco.

I’m afraid I haven’t read Madame Bovary, but just from a plot summary it appears that she is conscious/cognizant of deliberately rejecting everyday life, while Don Quixote is about losing touch with reality and slipping into fantasy. My memory of DQ is that it is presented as a weakness of his (elderly) mind that he is prey to fantastic ideas, while MB sounds more like strength of will to reject/reshape her reality?

]]> By: Laura Vivanco /antique-advice-when-your-daughter-falls-in-love/#comment-15 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:50:01 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=535#comment-15 “Has anyone written a female Don Quixote?”

Would Madame Bovary count?

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