Eliza Haywood Summary

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... Read more

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 foll... Read more

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 ma... Read more

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&#x... Read more

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 Hayw... Read more

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 ... Read more