Patrick Spedding

EH died at 2 Cowley Street, Westminster, of an undisclosed illness which lasted three months.

This novel included two free-standing shorter stories. A French translation of 1751 was candidly titled Mélange de differentes pièces de vers et de prose. In its first form it was not successful despite...

This choice of name was ironically self-reflexive: she had sought fame as an author and been pursued by scandal as a woman. She was perhaps advertising books for sale by mid-January 1741, and advertised...

CMG was a popular silver-fork novelist, most commonly known as Mrs. Grey to her readers. Her works are often misattributed to her daughter Anna Maria Grey , or to the unrelated Maria Georgina Grey (1816-1906)...

EH 's fiction is well served by modern editions (many individual titles, and a collected volume of Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood edited by Paula Backscheider ). Moreover, her non-fictional prose has also...

Bibliographer Patrick Spedding called EH 's translation close and accurate apart from a consistent heightening of style, stepping up the emotional voltage.Aleksondra Hultquist , however, argued that Haywood's alterations to her source are...

A weekly periodical called The Parrot ran for four numbers, as the work of a widow, Mrs Prattle, née Tell-Tale. Sometimes ascribed to EH , it is probably not by her.

The anonymous Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman appeared; it was first ascribed to EH by her bibliographer Patrick Spedding . Dealing with the notorious Annesley case, it became one of her great hits.

EH worked on this during summer 1720. The title-page said 1721, and bore her name. The work is a translation, or more precisely a paraphrase, from the French of Edmé Boursault

Working on a perhaps fifteen-year-old text, Haywood made only slight revisions, many of them matters of tone and sensibility, as when Cupid, once the ensnaring God becomes the ensnaring deity. Her change of old-style...

This year EH published four new works or instalments of works. Besides these, Some Memoirs of the Amours and Intrigues of a Certain Irish Dean . . . not many Hundred Years since...

Galfridus Walpole was a brother of the Prime Minister Sir Robert, who died in 1726. This work had been advertised for at least a year before it appeared, with a title-page saying the letters had...

EH has been suspected of editing Lady's Weekly Magazine (of which only one number survives, dated 19 February 1747) and The Tatler Revived, which followed in 1750. Patrick Spedding does not accept either attribution.

Patrick Spedding briefly discusses forty-five rejected attributions to EH and forty-six ghosts, or reported but non-existent texts, most of them rumoured other editions of actual works.