Three Novellas: 5 (Early English Women Writers, 1660-1800) - Softcover

Eliza Haywood (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870134280 ISBN 13: 9780870134289

Publisher: Michigan State University Press, 1995

Synopsis

The three novellas presented here--The Ditress'd Orphan, The City Jilt, and The Double Marriage--were published separately in 1726, but were originally intended for a single volume. Haywood was a dangerous entity in the eighteenth century: a writing woman, writing for women. Like many female authors before her, Haywood was labeled and condemned by men as unfeminine, licentious, immodest and usurping. She dared to wield that masculine instrument, the pen, and speak her mind in public like a man.

About this title

About the Author:

Eliza Haywood (1693? died Feb. 25, 1756, London) was a prolific English writer of sensational romantic novels that mirrored contemporary 18th-century scandals. She left her husband, a middle-aged clergyman, for the stage, supporting herself also by writing and adapting works for the theatre. She then turned to the extravagantly passionate fiction for which there was then a vogue, adopting the technique of writing novels based on scandals involving leaders of society, whom she denoted by initials. (The British Museum in London has a key giving their full names.)

Synopsis:

In this edition of three of her novellas, Eliza Haywood is revealed as a writer of great spirit and daring with her dramatic descriptions of the battle of the sexes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0870134280
• ISBN 13: 9780870134289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 141