The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 244 pages of information about The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood.

The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 244 pages of information about The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood.

  [Another edition.] The Second Edition.  For D. Browne; and Sold by J.
  Osborn. 1729. 12mo. 
      New York Public Library.

[Another edition.] For W. Feales; And Sold by J. Osborn. 1735. 12mo. 
      B.M. (11775. b. 44).  Yale.

[An abridgment.] The Comedy of a Wife to be Lett, or, the Miser Cured, compressed into Two Acts, by Ann Minton.  For A. Seale; Ann Minton; and all booksellers. 1802. 8vo. 
      B.M. (11779. b. 84).

67.  The Young Lady.  No. 1, 2, 3.  By Euphrosine.  For T. Gardner. 2d. each.  Euphrosine, like Mira, was the name of one of the Female Spectator Club.  This was probably Mrs. Haywood’s last piece of writing. 
      Gentleman’s Magazine, Jan. 1756.

III.  WORKS ATTRIBUTED TO MRS. HAYWOOD

68.  The History of Cornelia.  For A. Millar. 1750. 12mo. 
      Arthur Header Catalogue.

69.  Matrimony, a Novel, containing a series of Interesting Adventures. 1755. 8vo. 2 vols.  A re-issue of The Marriage Act (1754) by John Shebbeare (D.N.B.). 
      Arthur Header Catalogue.

70.  Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput.  Written by Captain Gulliver. 
Containing an Account of the Intrigues, and some other particular
Transactions of that Nation, omitted in the two Volumes of his Travels. 
Published by Lucas Bennet....  For J. Roberts. 1727. 8vo. 
Attributed to Mrs. Haywood by Pope. 
      B.M. (12510. aaa. 5).  Daily Journal, 11 Jan. 1727.  A second
      edition was advertised for Roberts on 6 Feb. 1727 (Daily Post).

71.  The Pleasant and Delightful History of Gillian of Croydon:  Containing, Her Birth and Parentage:  Her first Amour, with the sudden Death of her Sweetheart:  Her leaving her Father’s House In Disguise, and becoming Deputy to a Country Midwife; with a very odd and humoursome Adventure before a Justice of the Peace, for screening a Child under her Hoop-petticoat:  Her discovery of a Love-Intrigue between her Mistress’s Daughter, and a perjur’d, false-hearted Young-man, which she relates in the tragical History of William and Margaret:  Her Account of a Country Wedding in Kent; with several merry Passages which attended it.  Illustrated with suitable Cuts.  The Whole done much after the same Method as those celebrated Novels, by MRS. ELIZA HAYWOOD.  For A. Bettesworth. 1727. 12mo.  A chap-book, not by Mrs. Haywood. 
      B.M. (12410. a. 28).

IV.  WORKS PUBLISHED BY MRS. HAYWOOD

At the end of the first volume of The Virtuous Villager, 1742, occurs the following advertisement: 

New Books, sold by Eliza Haywood, Publisher, at the Sign of Fame in Covent-Garden.

I. The Busy-Body; or Successful Spy; being the entertaining History of Mons. Bigand....  The whole containing great Variety of Adventures, equally instructive and diverting.

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