SOURCE: "The Fair Triumvirate of Wit," in Smith College Studies in Modern Languages, Vol. XI, Nos. 1-3, October 1929-July 1930, pp. 1-23.

In the following excerpt, Horner provides an assessment of Haywood's work and career.

.A few years before the death of M^rs Manley, there appeared in the Postboy for January 7, 1721, the following notice:

"Whereas Elizabeth Haywood, Wife of the Reverend M^r Valentine Haywood, eloped from him her Husband on Saturday the 26 of November, last past, and went away without his Knowledge and Consent: This is to give Notice to all persons in general, That if any one shall trust her, either with Money or Goods, or if she shall contract Debts of any kind whatsoever, the said M^r Haywood will not pay the same."³⁴

This Elizabeth, or Eliza, Haywood would have been recognized by contemporary readers of this announcement as the author of a popular...