Blouch, Christine. “Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity”. Studies in English Literature, pp. 535 - 52.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Haywood | Nothing is known of EH
's mother except her probable name, Mary. Blouch, Christine. “Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity”. Studies in English Literature, pp. 535 - 52. 536 EH
has been thought to be a daughter of London shopkeepers Robert and Elizabeth Fowler; but literary historian Christine Blouch
has argued... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | EH
's socio-political allegory stands virtually alone in her oeuvre in its attempt to reproduce the political instrumentality of Manley
's scandal fiction during the reign of Anne. Ballaster, Ros. Seductive Forms. Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740. Clarendon Press, 1992. 157 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | A more recent generation of feminist scholars has succeeded in locating EH
in the developing tradition of women's fiction. Critic Mary Anne Schofield
has argued that her heroines are feisty feminists. Paula Backscheider
points out... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Melanie Bigold
has argued the primary importance of the letter form in ESR
's output, noting that much of her poetry after her early years is embedded in prose structures. Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, No. 1, pp. 1 - 14. 2 |
Author summary | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
wrote witty, topical, satirical poetry during the 1690s, followed later in life by letters, essays, fiction (often epistolary), and a wide range of poetic modes, often though not invariably with a moral or religious... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Paula R. Backscheider
has noted the extraordinary popularity of this three-volume publication as measured in numbers of editions or re-issues: seventy-nine by 1825, eighty-nine by 1840, and in every decade from the 1730s to the... |
Reception | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
's poems are not easily accessible. Only one was included by George Washington Bethune
in his Philadelphia anthology The British Female Poets, 1848 (during her lifetime), and one by Paula R. Backscheider
in... |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | 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... |
Reception | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Since the re-awakening of interest in women's writing in the late twentieth century, ESR
has received less attention than she deserves, perhaps because of a tendency to pigeon-hole her as a religious writer, but... |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | The plot depends on the fact that the hero and heroine, Grammont or Gramont and Felicia, lacking money to marry, have done so in secret and even had a child. They are both pressured to... |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | This comedy centres on three female characters. Its Lesbia is seduced and has been abandoned, but achieves a somewhat compromised happy ending after other characters vote for her to marry her seducer, the now supposedly... |
Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | 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. Paula R. Backscheider |
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