Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood

by Haywood, Eliza; Backscheider, Paula R.

• ISBN13: 9780195108477
• ISBN10: 0195108477
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Paula R. Backscheider is the Pepperell Eminent Scholar at Auburn University

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Selected Bibliography	p. xliv
Note on the Texts	p. xlvi
A Wife to Be Lett: A Comedy (1724)	p. 1
The City Jilt; or, The Alderman Turn'd Beau: A Secret History (1726)	p. 83
The Mercenary Lover: or, The Unfortunate Heiresses (1726)	p. 121
From The Fruitless Enquiry (1727)	p. 163
The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great (1733)	p. 171
From Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo (1736)	p. 221
From The Invisible Spy (1755)	p. 243
From The Wife (1756)	p. 299
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