Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia
Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia

Author: Eliza Fowler Haywood

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-07-22

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 3111150054

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Eliza Fowler Haywood (c. 1693–1756) was a prolific writer, widely connected actress and critical philosopher. Besides her contributions to moral philosophy and economics, she provides noteworthy insights into early eighteenth-century English society. Haywood’s precise critique of a government ignoring the needs of its most vulnerable citizens remains compelling today. Her two-volume utopian work Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (1724) is a mythological re-telling of the many problems facing early eighteenth-century England. In the first volume, Haywood discusses the economic and financial crisis brought about by England’s South Sea Bubble and interweaves it with her philosophical argument of genuine love and the corruption wrought by greed and lust. Also available as paperback: https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110764390/html The second volume will be published in 2025.

Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood
Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood

Author: Eliza Fowler Haywood

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0195108477

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This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing she produced, and the ways she treated important themes and issues.

Novel and Romance
Novel and Romance

Author: Hubert McDermott

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1989-06-18

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1349102121

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McDermott argues that the novels of the 18th century should be seen as part of an age-old European tradition going back to Homer rather than as a unique English event. He examines European fictional narratives and romance and their influence on authors such as Richardson and Fielding.

The Injur'd Husband, Or
The Injur'd Husband, Or

Author: Eliza Fowler Haywood

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1999-04-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780813109619

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" The scheming, sexually predatory anti-heroine of The Injur'd Husband is a memorable villain who defies all expectations of a woman's conduct in marriage. The heroine of Lasselia is initially a model of virtue who bravely resists the advances of a king, only to be driven by her passion and desire into an illicit affair with a married man and ultimately into ruin. Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) was one of the first women in England to earn a living writing fiction. Her early tales of amorous intrigue, sometimes based on real people, were exceedingly popular though controversial. Haywood, along with her contemporary Daniel Defoe, did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction in the period just prior to the emergence of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Tobias Smollett, the dominant novelists of the mid-eighteenth century.

Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 1
Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 1

Author: Derek Hughes

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1040281192

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This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists to Aphra Benn. It includes the work of Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix, Eliza Haywood and Elizabeth Griffith.

The Injur'd Husband and Lasselia
The Injur'd Husband and Lasselia

Author: Eliza Haywood

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-10-17

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0813157870

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Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) was one of the first women in England to earn a living writing fiction. Her early tales of amorous intrigue, sometimes based on real people, were exceedingly popular though controversial. Haywood, along with her contemporary Daniel Defoe, did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction in the period just prior to the emergence of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Tobias Smollett, the dominant novelists of the mid-eighteenth century. The scheming, sexually predatory anti-heroine of The Injur'd Husband is a memorable villain who defies all expectations of a woman's conduct in marriage. The heroine of Lasselia is initially a model of virtue who bravely resists the advances of a king, only to be driven by her passion and desire into an illicit affair with a married man and ultimately into ruin. These two provocative narratives strikingly represent Haywood's extraordinary contribution to the development of the novel.

A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789
A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789

Author: Susan Staves

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-09-07

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1139458582

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Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. This major work of criticism also offers fresh insights about women's writing in all literary forms, not only fiction, but also poetry, drama, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, essay, translation and the familiar letter. Authors celebrated in their own time and who have been neglected, and those who have been revalued and studied, are given equal attention. The book's organisation by chronology and its attention to history challenge the way we periodise literary history. Each chapter includes a list of key works written in the period covered, as well as a narrative and critical assessment of the works. This magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of prevalent editions of the authors discussed.

A Political Biography of Eliza Haywood
A Political Biography of Eliza Haywood

Author: Kathryn R King

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1317314808

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While under arrest in 1750 on suspicion of producing a seditious pamphlet Eliza Haywood insisted she ‘never wrote any thing in a political way’. This study of the life and works, the first full-length biography of Haywood in nearly a century, takes the measure of her duplicity.