The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood : Essays on Her Life and Work /

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The most prolific woman writer of the eighteenth century, Eliza Haywood (1693-1756?) was a key player in the history of the English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to the emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett...

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Other Authors: Bocchicchio, Rebecca P., 1967- (Editor), Saxton, Kirsten T., 1965- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, > 1693?-1756.
Women and literature.
Novelists, English.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Romanciers anglais > 18e siecle > Biographies.
Women and literature > England > History > 18th century.
Novelists, English > 18th century > Biography.
England.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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Summary:The most prolific woman writer of the eighteenth century, Eliza Haywood (1693-1756?) was a key player in the history of the English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to the emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett. Also one of Augustan England's most popular authors, Haywood came to fame in 1719 with the publication of her first novel, Love in Excess. In addition to writing fiction, she was a playwright, translator, bookseller, actress, theater critic, and editor of The Female Spectator, the first English pe.
Physical Description:1 online resource (378 pages).
ISBN:9780813147635

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