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During her thirty-odd years of ferociously energetic activity as a writer, Eliza Haywood produced some seventy books, including more than sixty works of fiction--novels, secret histories or scandal ch...
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In the following excerpt, Horner provides an assessment of Haywood's work and career.
.A few years before the death of Mrs Manley, there appeared in the Postboy for January 7, 1721, the followi...
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In the following essay, Blouch discussess Haywood's relative biographical and critical obscurity.
The closest Eliza Haywood ever got to Poet's Corner was an unmarked grave within a stone...
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In the following essay, Koon discusses the social context of Haywood's periodical The Female Spectator.
Eliza Haywood, daughter of a London shopkeeper, was probably born in 1690, probably marri...
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In the following essay, Schofield offers an analysis of Haywood's female heroines and of Haywood's role in the development of the novel. Schofield also examines ways that Haywood'...
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In the following essay, Schofield analyzes Haywood's depiction of prostitutes in her fiction.
In 1731 Sarah Millwood, London prostitute, protests:
I curse your barbarous sex, who robb'd...
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In the following essay, Schofield provides an overview of the theme of masking in four of Haywood's popular novels.
Eliza Fowler Haywood (1693?-1756) is the most popular and prolific of English...
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In the following excerpt from her study of female novelists in English, Spencer examines the theme of the reformed heroine in Haywood's novel Miss Betsy Thoughtless.
The change in Eliza Haywood...
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In the following essay, Richetti analyzes female speech in Haywood's works, especially in The Rash Resolve, and compares it with that depicted by other eighteenth-century novelists.
Inescapably...
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In the following essay, Schofield examines the theme of disguise in Haywood's Miss Betsy Thoughtless.
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751)1 following the success of Collyer's Fel...
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Eliza Haywood
Critical Essay by Joyce M. Horner
