Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood (Women Writers in English, 1350-1850)

This Exciting Edition Gathers Together For The First Time A Sampling Of Haywood's Writings Generous Enough To Represent The Full Range Of Her Fiction And Drama And Includes Material From Each Decade Of Her Long Writing Life. All Texts Come Back Into Print Here And Here Alone. The Collection Features Six Fictions, Including Both Racy Early Work And Later Experimental Prose Fiction, Two Plays, And Some Powerful Political Writing. --publisher Descripton. A Wife To Be Lett -- The City Jilt -- The Mercenary Lover -- From The Fruitless Enquiry -- The Opera Of Operas -- From The Adventures Of Eovaai -- From The Invisible Spy -- From The Wife. Edited By Paula R. Backscheider. Includes Bibliographical References (p. Xliv-xlvi). Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 Selected Bibliography......Page 45 Note on the Texts......Page 47 A Wife to Be Lett: A Comedy (1724)......Page 48 The City Jilt; or, The Alderman Turn'd Beau: A Secret History (1726)......Page 130 The Mercenary Lover: or, The Unfortunate Heiresses (1726)......Page 168 From The Fruitless Enquiry (1727)......Page 210 The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great (1733)......Page 218 From Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo (1736)......Page 268 From The Invisible Spy (1755)......Page 290 From The Wife (1756)......Page 346 This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing she produced, and the ways she treated important themes and issues