The passionate fictions of Eliza Haywood : essays on her life and work /

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Imprint:	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2000.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Haywood, Eliza Fowler, -- 1693?-1756. Haywood, Eliza Fowler, -- 1693?-1756. Novelists, English -- 18th century -- Biography. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century. Novelists, English. Women and literature. England. Biographies. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11239891

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Other authors / contributors:	Saxton, Kirsten T., 1965- editor. Bocchicchio, Rebecca P., 1967- editor.
ISBN:	9780813147635 0813147638 0813121612 9780813121611
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-347) and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 20, 2015).
Summary:	The most prolific woman writer of the eighteenth century, Eliza Haywood (1693-1756?) was a key player in the history of the English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to the emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett. Also one of Augustan England's most popular authors, Haywood came to fame in 1719 with the publication of her first novel, Love in Excess. In addition to writing fiction, she was a playwright, translator, bookseller, actress, theater critic, and editor of The Female Spectator, the first English pe.
Other form:	Print version: Saxton, Kirsten T. Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood : Essays on Her Life and Work. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813121611

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