The History of Jemmy And Jenny Jessamy

by Haywood, Eliza; Richetti, John J.

• ISBN13: 9780813123592
• ISBN10: 0813123593
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-09
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, originally published as three volumes in 1753, is the last work by the prolific English novelist Eliza Haywood. Out of print since the early nineteenth century and never available in an edited and fully-annotated modern edition such as this, Haywood's novel is an important early example of the sentimental novel of domestic manners. In its depiction of marriage and courtship among the leisure class of the mid-eighteenth century, Haywood's novel is remarkable for its unsentimental realism. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Chronology	p. xxxvii
Note on the Text	p. xlii
The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy
	p. 3
	p. 131
	p. 259
Notes to the Novels	p. 397
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