Eliza Haywood

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Standard Name: Haywood, Eliza
Birth Name: Elizabeth Fowler
Married Name: Eliza Haywood
Pseudonym: A Young Lady
Pseudonym: Mira
Pseudonym: Euphrosine
Pseudonym: The Authors of the Female Spectator
Pseudonym: The Author of the Fortunate Foundlings
Pseudonym: Exploralibus
Pseudonym: The Son of a Mandarin, residing in London
EH was the most prolific novelist by number of titles (even ignoring those doubtfully ascribed) between Aphra Behn and Charlotte Smith . She also wrote poems, plays, periodicals, conduct books, translation, and theatre history. Her output of 72 works and four collections (actual or planned) skews all graphs of the rising output of published works by women. Some readers find the endless, breathless sex scenes of her earlier fiction tedious; but behind the sensationalism is a sharp mind. She is hilariously satirical, pointedly topical, formally inventive and experimental, and trenchantly critical of power misused (in both political and gender relations). Her career shows a certain direction as well as a constant opportunism. The varied origins of the novel gave her scope for original hybridizations of the pliable new form. Her Betsy Thoughtless first brought to the post-Richardsonian novel a female viewpoint unmonitored by male mentors. Her Female Spectator was the first woman's work in the new magazine genre.
Black and white engraving of Eliza Haywood by George Vertue after a painting by James Parmentier. It has an oval frame tied with a ribbon at the top and set within a rectangular from. Haywood's hair is tied back, with a lock of it showing on her left shoulder. She is wearing a dress with a deep decolletage and lace at the bosom. This engraving was used as frontispiece to vol. i of her "Secret Histories, Novels and Poems", of which the second (and perhaps only) edition appeared in 1725.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Anne-Thérèse de Lambert
The letters to both children were probably written in the last decade of the seventeenth century, and were said to be influenced by the writings of Louis Silvestre de Sacy . The translator into English...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Lennox
The novel's opening is an early example of a technique which was to remain popular with authors for generations: About the middle of July 17 — . . . , where the precise day and...
Reception Charlotte Lennox
In Fielding's detailed comparison of the novel with Don Quixote, Lennox emerges superior to Cervantes in morality, probability, and character-drawing, though Cervantes is superior in other ways. This enthusiastic review was widely reprinted.
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Alethea Lewis
She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...
Intertextuality and Influence Delarivier Manley
The feminist revenge fantasy in The Wife's Resentment, of a woman executing rough justice on her upper-class betrayer, was tamed and sentimentalised by successors who included Eliza Haywood .
Donovan, Josephine. “From Avenger to Victim: Genealogy of a Renaissance Novella”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
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Literary responses Delarivier Manley
Swift also, like his erstwhile allies Addison and Steele , was spurred by DM 's example to consternation over women's growing political activity. Though he was personally her friend, Swift undoubtedly aimed partly at her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Masters
A few of the letters discuss female friendship and feminist opinion, as if seeking to raise the consciousness of the recipient. Some in this category occur at random among other letters. Most treat topics of...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The emotional outpouring of the early letters sounds unmediated; yet they are modelled on a style used in epistolary fiction by Behn and Haywood .
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Murray
The first anecdote about the girls is sentimental in tone. The sweet and lovely Miss Menil reforms the eleven-year-old malicious telltale Miss Cummings by taking her part when she has done wrong. Miss Cummings, filled...
Intertextuality and Influence Laetitia Pilkington
LP was vividly aware of the literary handicap represented by her gender. But she was choosy about claiming influence. She decried Manley , Haywood , and Mary Barber (whose poems, she says, would have been...
Textual Features Jean Plaidy
The Carr novels present perhaps JP 's heaviest concentration of plot-elements which would have been familiar to Eliza Haywood , Penelope Aubin , Ouida , and a host of popular fictioneers of every century and...
Friends, Associates Alexander Pope
Pope's relationships with women, particularly women who wrote, tended to be complicated and turbulent. They have been ably studied by scholar Valerie Rumbold . Contrary to rumour, he apparently liked and respected Anne Finch ...
Textual Features Ann Radcliffe
Again AR 's influences are Walpole and Reeve .
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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Such elements as the heroine's unconsciously offering herself to the male gaze, revealing intimate physical charms as she lies asleep, probably do not stem directly...
Textual Features Clara Reeve
CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...
Literary responses Samuel Richardson
This ground-breaking novel provoked wild enthusiasm among general readers, and a number of unauthorised continuations. Henry Fielding 's Shamela and Eliza Haywood 's Anti-Pamela are the most satirical among these.

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Texts

Haywood, Eliza. The Husband. T. Gardner, 1756.
Haywood, Eliza. The Injur’d Husband. D. Browne, Jr.; W. Chetwood, and J. Woodman; S. Chapman, 1722.
Haywood, Eliza. The Invisible Spy. T. Gardner, 1754, http://HSS Special Collections.
Castera, Louis Adrien Duperron de. The Lady’s Philosopher’s Stone. Translator Haywood, Eliza, D. Browne, Jr., and S. Chapman, 1725.
Haywood, Eliza. The Mercenary Lover. N. Dobb, 1726.
Hatchett, William et al. The Opera of Operas. W. Rayner, 1733.
Haywood, Eliza. The Parrot. Thomas Edlin and James Roberts.
Haywood, Eliza. The Parrot. T. Gardner.
Haywood, Eliza. The Perplex’d Dutchess. J. Roberts, 1727.
Haywood, Eliza. The Rash Resolve. D. Browne, Jr., and S. Chapman, 1724.
Haywood, Eliza. The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania. Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1726.
Haywood, Eliza, and Christine Blouch. The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood. Editor Pettit, Alexander, Pickering and Chatto, 2000.
Haywood, Eliza. The Surprize. J. Roberts, 1724.
Haywood, Eliza. The Tea-Table. J. Roberts, 1725.
Haywood, Eliza. The Unequal Conflict. J. Walthoe and J. Crokatt, 1725.
Haywood, Eliza. The Wife. T. Gardner, 1756.
Haywood, Eliza. The Wife. T. Gardner, 1756, http://HSS Special Collections.
Haywood, Eliza. The Works of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. D. Browne Jr., and S. Chapman, 1724.
Haywood, Eliza. The Young Lady. T. Gardner.