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 Martha Fowke
MF began showing her poems to Aaron Hill as soon as their flirtatious relationship was launched in early 1721. Christine Gerrard believes that MF is the author of a poem printed in Eliza Haywood 's...
Textual Production Martha Fowke
MF may have written The Plain Dealer's elegy on Manley , published in no. 53 on 21 September 1724 and reprinted in the collected edition in 1730.
Fowke, Martha. “Introduction”. Clio, edited by Phyllis J. Guskin, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, pp. 15-50.
34
It has been ascribed to Haywood
Textual Features Eva Figes
Though she mentions such writers as Eliza Haywood and Mary Davys , she begins her detailed discussion with the 1790s (a time which twenty years on would be regarded as somewhat late in the history...
Occupation Henry Fielding
Having had his first play produced in February 1728 and gone on to achieve some success in the difficult metier of London playwright, HF became manager of the Little Theatre in the Haymarketbecause that...
Literary responses Sarah Fielding
This novel had some influence on Samuel Johnson , both on his Rambler essays and on Rasselas: a matter which deserves critical attention. In fiction it ushers in a brilliant mid-century constellation and, together...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothea Du Bois
This most sensational trial of the mid-century was reported in detail by the Gentleman's Magazine the following year, and used in more or less avowed fictions by Eliza Haywood in Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothea Du Bois
DDB 's family was, it appears, distantly related to that of Eliza Haywood .
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
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Textual Features Dorothea Du Bois
After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck , Mary Barber
Family and Intimate relationships Selina Davenport
Her father, Captain Charles Granville Wheler , was a great-nephew of Sir George Wheler , a traveller, clergyman, scholar, and early member of the Royal Society , who had a family estate in Kent. (...
Family and Intimate relationships William Congreve
Congreve's daughter therefore grew up with the name and identity of Mary Godolphin , from her supposed and legal father. (Henrietta's title, held in her own right of descent from her famous father, was not...
Reception Mary Collyer
The pious Duchess of Somerset (formerly Lady Hertford, a respected patron and poet) skimmed this novel as it passed from hand to hand in her circle (at the end of its publication year) but assured...
Literary responses Sarah Chapone
SC 's friend and printer Richardson saw her project in a different and far more simple light than she did: as the administering by a good woman of an antidote to the Poison shed by...
Friends, Associates Susanna Centlivre
In the 1720s she belonged to an informal literary club which included Anthony Hammond (with whom she was supposed to have had her most youthful liaison), Ambrose Philips , Martha Fowke , and Eliza Haywood .
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence Frances Brooke
Mary Singleton, supposed author of this paper, with its trenchant comments on society and politics, is an unmarried woman on the verge of fifty,
McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
14
good-humoured as well as sharply intelligent: a contribution to the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Brereton
The book opens, like other posthumous collections, with a biographical memoir, in this case by JB 's daughter Charlotte, who reinforces the poet's own positioning of herself as Welsh, female, and modest. Envisaging potential hostility...

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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.