Paula R. Backscheider

Nothing is known of EH 's mother except her probable name, Mary.

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. In its witty preface EH presents...

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...

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.Paula R. Backscheider ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Though LA continued to write for children, and edited various writings by her aunt and her father , she did not think of herself as a writer in the same sense that they were. Her...

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.