Eliza Fowler Haywood

Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Since the 1980s, Eliza Haywood's literary works have been gaining in recognition and interest. She wrote and published over seventy works during her lifetime including fiction, drama, translations, poetry, conduct literature and periodicals. Haywood is a significant figure of the long 18th century as one of the important founders of the novel in English. Her writing career began in 1719 with the first two installments of Love in Excess. Many of her works were published anonymously. Amongst her other works are Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze (1724), The Fortunate Foundlings (1744), Life's Progress Through the Passions; or, The Adventures of Natura (1748) and The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751).

Fantomina; Or, Love in a Maze

Haywood was a dangerous entity in the eighteenth century: a writing woman, writing for women. The three novellas presented here--The Ditress'd Orphan, The City Jilt, and The Double Marriage--were published separately in 1726, but were originally intended for a single volume.

Three Novellas

The British Recluse: Or, the Secret History of Cleomira. Second Edition

J. B.

Mrs. Manley (Mary de la Rivière)

In Four Letters to a Friend in London

Bath-intrigues

Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia

The Female Spectator

A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, ... Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood

A Wife to be Lett

A wife to be lett: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, etc

The Invisibe [sic] Spy

A Letter from H---- G----g, Esq; One of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to the Young Chevalier, ... that Attended Him from Avignon, in His Late Journey Through Germany, ... To a Particular Friend

In Four Volumes

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

In Three Volumes

The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy

By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. In Four Volumes. ...

Or, L'amour Trop Delicat. .... By Mrs. Haywood

Philidore and Placentia

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) N020639 London: printed for Tho. Green; and sold by J. Roberts, 1727. 2v.; 8°

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