however, possessed in excess the one gift that Defoe lacked.  To the scribbling authoress love was the force that motivated all the world.  Crude and conventional as are many of her repeated attempts to analyze the workings of a mind under the sway of soft desires, she nevertheless succeeded now and then in actuating her heroines with genuine emotion.  Both romance and realism were woven into the intricate web of the Richardsonian novel, and the contribution of Mrs. Haywood deserves to be remembered if only because she supplied the one element missing in Defoe’s masterpieces.  Each writer in his day was considered paramount in his or her particular field.[19]

FOOTNOTES [1] Les Heros de Roman, 1664, circulated in MS. and printed in 1688 without the consent of the author.  Not included in Boileau’s Works until 1713.

[2] The story of Tellisinda, who to avoid the reproach of barrenness imposes an adopted child upon her husband, but later bearing a son, is obliged to see a spurious heir inherit her own child’s estate, was borrowed with slight changes from La Belle Assemblee, I, Day 5, and used in Mrs. Haywood’s Fruitless Enquiry, (1727).

[3] La Pierre philosophale des dames, ou les Caprices de l’amour et du destin, by Louis Adrien Duperron de Castera, (1723), 12mo.

[4] L’Illustre Parisienne, (1679), variously attributed to Prechac and to Mme de Villedieu, had already been translated as The Illustrious Parisian Maid, or The Secret Amours of a German Prince, (1680).  A synopsis is given by H.E.  Chatenet, Le Roman et les Romans d’une femme de lettres ...  Mme de Villedieu, (Paris, 1911), 253-9.

[5] I have not seen a copy of the book.

[6] Mrs. E. Griffith’s comment on the work is typical of the tendency to moralize even the amusements of the day.  See A Collection of Novels, (1777), II, 162.  “The idea on which this piece is founded, has a good deal of merit in it; as tending to abate envy, and conciliate content; by shewing, in a variety of instances, that appearances are frequently fallacious; that perfect or permanent happiness is not the lot of mortal life; and that peace of mind and rational enjoyment are only to be found in bosoms free from guilt, and from intimate connection with the guilty.”

[7] I have omitted two or three unessential stories in the analysis.

[8] Act I, sc. ii.  In the novel the heroine is shut up by a miserly hunks of an uncle to force her into a detested mercenary match with his son.  In the play the mistress is the wife of the old and jealous keeper of the asylum.

[9] Preface to The Mercenary Lover, (1726).

[10] The Rash Resolve, (1724).

[11] The Double Marriage, (1726).

[12] Lodge’s Rosalynde, ed. E.C.  Baldwin, p. 19. Philidore and Placentia (1727), p. 12.

[13] Miss C.E.  Morgan, The Novel of Manners, (1911), 100.