Spedding, Patrick. “Eliza Haywood, Writing (and) Pornography in 1742”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Walwood and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, 2001, pp. 237-51.
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William Hatchett
Standard Name: Hatchett, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Haywood | After a possible affair with Richard Savage
, EH
seems to have begun her twenty-year liaison with William Hatchett
, playwright and seemingly quintessential Grub Street hack, Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii. xxxix-xl Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Haywood | EH
may have married in Ireland, while she was there in 1715. She says in letters of the late 1720s that her marriage was unfortunate qtd. in Blouch, Christine. “Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity”. Studies in English Literature, Vol. 31 , 1 June 1991– 2024, pp. 535-52. 538 He was... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Trefusis | This work clearly follows in the tradition of the erotic, oriental, satirical novel Le Sopha, 1742, by the younger Crébillon
. Le Sopha was translated into English in the year of original publication by... |
| Literary responses | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | Of ATL
's translators, Hatchett
(not a disinterested critic) recommended the advice-letters by pronouncing that the Stile has all the Vivacity of the Ladies without wanting the Solidity of fine Moral, and that her Sentiments... |
| Occupation | Eliza Haywood | 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, Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 676 |
| Performance of text | Eliza Haywood | |
| Publishing | Eliza Haywood | EH
and William Hatchett
received in instalments a total of eleven guineas from publisher William Nourse
for translating the immensely popular French erotic novel Le Sopha, by Crébillon fils
. Spedding, Patrick. “Eliza Haywood, Writing (and) Pornography in 1742”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Walwood and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, 2001, pp. 237-51. 375, 245-7 and n1 |
| Residence | Eliza Haywood | EH
had been out of town with William Hatchett
during the summer of 1741. In 1752 she moved from the good (that is expensive) address of Covent Garden to 2 Cowley Street, the house... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | Transactions of both EH
and William Hatchett
involving theatre tickets now make it seem certain that she was indeed the Author of an adaptation of the sixteenth-century tragedy Arden of Feversham (as Arden of Feversham... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | According to the court hearings about this work (reported by the Monthly Review after the arrest of several of the publishers and pamphlet-sellers concerned), George Woodfall
had commissioned her to write it about a year... |
| 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... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Eliza Haywood | In late 1741 EH
faced financial crisis on account of the arrest for debt of William Hatchett
. While little is known of Hatchett's finances, it is clear that he was not rich, and unlikely... |
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Texts
Lambert, Anne-Thérèse de. Advice from a Mother to her Son and Daughter. Translator Hatchett, William, Thomas Worrall, 1728.
Lambert, Anne-Thérèse de. “Dedication, Translator’s Preface”. Advice from a Mother to her Son and Daughter, translated by. William Hatchett, Thomas Worrall, 1728, p. iii - xii.
Hatchett, William et al. The Opera of Operas. W. Rayner, 1733.