Playwright and novelist Eliza Haywood, by George Vertue, 1725.

Eliza Haywood (1693 - February 25, 1756) (born Elizabeth Fowler) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Since the 1980s, Eliza Haywood’s literary works have been gaining in recognition and interest. Described as “prolific even by the standards of a prolific age” (Blouch, intro 7), Haywood wrote and published over seventy works during her lifetime including fiction, drama, translations, poetry, conduct literature and periodicals. Haywood is a significant figure of the long 18th century as one of the important founders of the novel in English. Today she is studied primarily as a novelist. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... George Vertue (1684-1756) was a British engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period. ... Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ... Events January 11 - Eruption of Mt. ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... // Fiction (from the Latin fingere, to form, create) is the genre of imaginative prose literature, including novels and short stories. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Translations (Aistrichiuain) is a three-act play by Irish playwright Brian Friel written in 1980. ... The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ...

Biography

Haywood gave conflicting accounts of her own life; her origins remain unclear and there are presently contending versions of her biography. For example, it was once mistakenly believed that she married the Rev. Valentine Haywood.

Some details have been widely accepted however: She was probably born in Shropshire, England. Her first entry into the public record is in Dublin, Ireland, in 1715 when she was listed as "Mrs. Haywood" in Thomas Shadwell’s Shakespeare adaptation, Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater at Smock Alley Theatre. She an open live-in relationship with William Hatchett, the father of her second child. She also had a child with Richard Savage. Shropshire (alternatively Salop or abbreviated Shrops) is an English county in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom. ... Thomas Shadwell Thomas Shadwell (c. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ... Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare written around 1607. ... This article needs cleanup. ...

Haywood’s writing career began in 1719 with the first two installments of Love in Excess, a novel, and ended in the year she died with conduct books The Wife and The Husband, and the biweekly periodical The Young Lady. She wrote in several genres and many of her works were published anonymously. There is much of Haywood’s writing career that still remains unknown. Love in Excesss title page Love in Excess (1719-1720) is, next to The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1754), Eliza Haywoods best known novel. ...

She fell ill in October 1755 and died February 25, 1756. She was buried in Westminster. For unknown reasons, her burial was delayed by about a week and her death duties remain unpaid. February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Westminster is a district within the City of Westminster in London. ...

Fiction

Haywood, Delarivier Manley and Aphra Behn were known as the Fair Triumvirate of Wit and are considered the most prominent writers of amatory fiction. Eliza Haywood’s prolific fiction develops from titillating romance novels and amatory fiction during the early 1720s to works focused more on “women’s rights and position” (Schofield, Haywood 63) in the later 1720s into the 1730s. In the middle novels of her career, women were locked up, tormented and beleaguered by domineering men. In the later novels of the 1740s and 1750s however, marriage was viewed as a positive situation between men and women. Mary Delarivier (sometimes spelt Delariviere, Delarivière or de la Rivière) Manley (1663 or c. ... A sketch of Aphra Behn by George Scharf from a portrait believed to be lost. ... Amatory fiction is a genre of British literature popular during the late 17th century and 18th century. ...

Due to the economy of publishing in the 18th century, her novels often ran to multiple volumes. Authors were paid only once for a book and received no royalties; a second volume meant a second payment. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Haywood’s first novel, Love in Excess; or The Fatal Enquiry (1719-1720) touches on themes of education and marriage. Termed an amatory bodice-ripper by some, this novel is also notable for its treatment of the fallen woman. D’Elmonte, the novel’s male protagonist, reassures one woman that she should not condemn herself: “There are times, madam,” he says “in which the wisest have not power over their own actions.” The fallen woman is given an unusually positive portrait. Amatory fiction is a genre of British literature popular during the late 17th century and 18th century. ... A bodice ripper is a genre of romantic fiction, often historical fiction. ... A protagonist is the main figure of a piece of literature or drama and has the main part or role. ...

Fantomina; or Love in a Maze (1724) is a short novel about a woman who wears a mask in order to repeatedly seduce the same man. Schofield points out that, “Not only does she satisfy her own sexual inclinations, she smugly believes that ‘while he thinks to fool me, [he] is himself the only beguiled Person’” (50). This novel asserts that women have some access to power in the social sphere, one of the recurring themes in Haywood’s work. Fang mask used for the ngil ceremony, an inquisitorial search for sorcerers. ...

The Adventures of Eovaii: A Pre-Adamitical History (1736) was also titled The Unfortunate Princess (1741). It is a satire of Prime Minister Robert Walpole, told through a sort of oriental fairy tale. 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ...

Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected (1741) is a satirical response to Samuel Richardson’s didactic novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740). It makes fun of the idea of bargaining one’s maidenhead for a place in society. Contemporary writer Henry Fielding also responded to Pamela with An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741). 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761) was a major 18th century writer best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753). ... Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. ... An Apology for the Life of Mrs. ...

The Fortunate Foundlings (1744) is a picaresque novel in which two children of opposite sex experience the world differently, according to their gender. The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresco, from pícaro, for rogue or rascal) is a popular subgenre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a...

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751) is a sophisticated, multi-plot novel that has been deemed the first novel of female development in English. Betsy leaves her emotionally and financially abusive husband Munden and experiences independence for a time before she decides to marry again. Written a few years before her marriage conduct books were published, the novel contains advice on marriage in the form of quips from Lady Trusty. Her “patriarchal conduct-book advice to Betsy is often read literally as Haywood's new advice for her female audience. However, Haywood's audience consisted of both men and women, and Lady Trusty's bridal admonitions, the most conservative and patriarchal words of advice in the novel, are contradictory and impossible for any woman to execute completely” (Stuart).

Betsy Thoughtless represents an important change in the 18th century novel. It portrays a mistaken but intelligent and strong-willed woman who gives way to society’s pressures toward marriage. According to Backsheider, Betsy Thoughtless is a novel of marriage, rather than the more popular novel of courtship and thus foreshadows the type of domestic novel that would culminate in the 19th century such as Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Instead of concerning itself with attracting a partner well, Betsy Thoughtless is concerned with marrying well, and its heroine learns that giving way to the role of women in marriage can be fulfilling. A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... Charlotte Bront - idealized portrait, 1873 (based on a drawing by George Richmond, 1850) Charlotte Bront (April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855) was an English writer. ... Jane Eyre is a classic romance novel by Charlotte Brontë which was published in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Company, London, and is one of the most famous British novels of all time. ...

Haywood’s fiction also includes:

• The British Recluse (collected edition 1724)
• The Injur’d Husband
• Idalia; or The Unfortunate Mistress (1723)
• Lasselia; or The Self-Abandon’d
• The Rash Resove; or, The Untimely Discovery (1723)
• Secret Histories, Novels, and Poems (4 volumes, 1724)
• The Masqueraders; or Fatal Curiosity (1724-5)
• The Fatal Secret; or, Constancy in Distress (1724)
• The Surprise (1724)
• The Arragonian Queen: A Secret History (1724)
• The City Jilt; or, The Alderman Turn’d Beau (1726)
• The Force of Nature; or, The Lucky Disappointment (1724)
• Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (1725)
• Bath Intrigues: in four Letters to a Friend in London (1725)
• Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse (1724)
• The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Carimania (1726)
• Letters from the Palace of Fame (1727)
• The Unequal Conflict (1725)
• The Fatal Fondness (1725)
• The Mercenary Lover; or, the Unfortunate Heiresses (1726)
• The Double Marriage; or, The Fatal Release (1726)
• The Distressed Orphan; or, Love in a Madhouse (1726)
• Cleomelia; or The Generous Mistress (1727)
• The Fruitless Enquiry (1727)
• The Life of Madam de Villesache (1727)
• Philadore and Placentia (1727)
• The Perplex’d Dutchess; or Treachery Rewarded (1728)
• The Padlock; or No Guard Without Virtue (1728)
• Irish Artifice; or, The History of Clarina (1728)
• Persecuted Virtue; or, The Cruel Lover (1728)
• The Agreeable Caledonian; or, Memoirs of Signiora di Morella (1728)
• The Fair Hebrew; or, A True, but Secret History of Two Jewish Ladies (1729)
• Life’s Progress through the Passions; or, The Adventures of Natura (1748)
• Dalinda; or The Double Marriage (1749)
• A Letter from H------ G--------, Esq., One of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber of the Young Chevalier (1750).
• The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy (1753)
• The Invisible Spy (1754)

Acting and drama

Haywood began her acting career in 1715 in Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. By 1717, she had moved to Lincoln's Inn Fields, where she worked for John Rich. Rich had her rewrite a play called The Fair Captive. The play only ran for three nights (to the author's benefit), but Rich added a fourth night as a benefit for the second author, Haywood. In 1724, after selling several novels (see below), Haywood authored her first play, A Wife to be Lett. Lincolns Inn Fields is the largest public square in London. ... John Rich (1682 - 1761) was an important theater manager in 18th century London. ...

During the second half of the 1720s, Haywood continued acting, and she moved over to the Haymarket Theatre to join with Henry Fielding in the opposition plays of the 1730s. In 1729, she wrote Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh to honor the future George II of the United Kingdom. George II, as Prince of Wales, was a locus for Tory opposition to the ministry of Robert Walpole. As he had made it clear that he did not favor his father's policies or ministry, praise for him was demurral from the present king. Others, such as James Thomson and Henry Brooke, were also writing such "patriotic" (which is to say in support of the Patriot Whigs) plays at the time, and Henry Carey was soon to satirize the failed promise of George II. See also: Haymarket Theatre (Leicester) Haymarket Theatre, ca. ... Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. ... George II King of Great Britain and Ireland George II (George Augustus) (10 November 1683–25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death. ... The Prince of Wales Feathers. This Heraldic badge of the Heir Apparent is derived from the ostrich feathers borne by Edward, the Black Prince. ... The term Tory derives from the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. ... The Right Honourable Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), usually known as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. ... James Thomson may be James Thomson poet of the eighteenth century, author of The Seasons James Thomson poet of the nineteenth century, author of The City of Dreadful Night James Thomson, brother of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin James Thomson, noted cell biologist at UW-Madison This is a disambiguation... This page is about the 18th century writer. ... The Patriot Whigs and, later Patriot Party, was a group within the Whig party in the United Kingdom from 1725 to 1803. ... Henry Carey (c. ...

Haywood's greatest success at Haymarket came with The Opera of Operas, an operatic adaptation of Fielding's Tragedy of Tragedies (with music by J. F. Lampe and Thomas Arne) in 1733. However, it was an adaptation with a distinct difference. Caroline of Ansbach had affected a reconciliation between George I and George II, and this meant an endorsement by George II of the Whig ministry. Haywood's adaptation contains a reconciliation scene, replete with symbols from Caroline's own grotto. This was an enunciation of a change by Haywood herself away from any Tory, or anti-Walpolean, causes that she had supported previously, and it did not go unnoticed by her contemporaries. John Frederick Lampe (1703 - 1751) was a musician. ... Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-March 5, 1778) was an English composer, best known for the popular patriotic song, Rule Britannia, which is still frequently sung, notably at the Last Night of the Proms; and also his musical settings of songs from the plays of William Shakespeare. ... Caroline of Ansbach (later Queen Caroline; Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline; 1 March 1683 – 20 November 1737) was the Queen Consort of George II // Margravine Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach was born on 1 March 1683, at Ansbach in Germany, the daughter of Johann Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and his second wife... The Whigs (with the Tories) are often described as one of two political parties in England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid 19th centuries. ...

In 1735, she wrote a one-volume Companion to the Theatre. This book contains plot summaries of contemporary plays, literary criticism, and dramaturgical observations. In 1747 she added a second volume. Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. ...

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Periodicals and non-fiction

While she was writing popular novels, Eliza Haywood was also working on periodicals, essays and manuals on social behaviour (conduct books). The Female Spectator (4 volumes, 1744-46), a monthly periodical, was written in answer to the contemporary journal The Spectator by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. In The Female Spectator, Haywood wrote in four personas (Mira, Euphrosine, Widow of Quality and The Female Spectator) and took positions on public issues such as marriage, children, reading, education and conduct. It was the first periodical written for women by a woman and arguably one of Haywood’s most significant contributions to women's writing. Haywood followed a lead by contemporary John Dunton who issued the Ladies’ Mercury as a companion to his successful Athenian Mercury. Even though Ladies’ Mercury was a self-proclaimed women’s journal, it was produced by men (Spacks xii). The Spectator was a daily publication of 1711–12, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England. ... Joseph Addison, the Kit-cat portrait, circa 1703–1712, by Godfrey Kneller. ... Sir Richard Steele (bap. ... John Dunton (May 4, 1659 -1733) was an English bookseller and author. ...

The Parrot (1746) apparently earned her questions from the government for political statements about Charles Edward Stuart. Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Maria Stuart (December 31, 1720 – January 31, 1788), was the exiled claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and was commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. ...

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1725) is termed a “hybrid" work by Schofield (103); being a work of non-fiction but making use of narrative techniques. Reflections on the Various Effects of Love (1726) is a didactic account of what can happen to a woman when she gives in to her passions. This piece demonstrates the sexual double standard that allow men to love freely without social consequence and women to be scandalized for doing the same. Mary I (popularly known as Mary, Queen of Scots: French: ); (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587) was Queen of Scots (the monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland) from December 14, 1542, to July 24, 1567. ... A double standard, according to the World Book Dictionary, is a standard applied more leniently to one group than to another. ...

The Wife and The Husband (1756) are conduct books for each partner in a marriage. The Wife was first published anonymously (by Mira, one of Haywood's personas from The Female Spectator); The Husband: in Answer to The Wife followed later the same year with Haywood’s name attached.

Like Daniel Defoe, Haywood worked on sensational pamphlets on the famous contemporary deaf-mute prophet, Duncan Campbell. Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (1660 [?] â€“ April 1731) was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. ...

Political writings

Eliza Haywood was active in politics during her entire career, although she had a party change around the time of the reconciliation of George II with Robert Walpole. She wrote a series of parallel histories, beginning with 1724's Memoirs of a Certain Island, Adjacent to Utopia, and then The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania in 1727. In 1746 her started another journal, The Parrot, which got her questioned by the government for political statements about Charles Edward Stuart, as she was writing just after the Jacobite Rising. This would happen again with the publication of A Letter from H-- G----g, Esq. in 1750. She grew more directly political with The Invisible Spy in 1755 and The Wife in 1756. Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Maria Stuart (December 31, 1720 – January 31, 1788), was the exiled claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and was commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. ... The Jacobite Risings were a series of uprisings, rebellions, and wars in the British Isles occurring between 1688 and 1746. ...

Haywood’s other works of non-fiction include:

Love-Letters on All Occasions Lately Passed between Persons of Distinction (1730). A Present for a Servant Maid ; or, the Sure Means of Gaining Love and Esteem (1743). [A revision.] A New Present for A Servant-Maid: containing Rules for her Moral Conduct, both with respect to Herself and her Superiors: The Whole Art of Cookery, Pickling, and Preserving, &c, &c. and every other Direction necessary to be known to render her a Complete, Useful and Valuable Servant. (in TEN BOOKS): G. Pearch, &c.] 1771. Epistles for the Ladies (1749).

Translations

Haywood published eight translations of popular continental romances (Schofield). They include: Letters from a Lady of Quality (1721); La Belle Assemblée (1724) (translation of Madame de Comez’s novella); The Lady’s Philosopher's Stone (1723) (translation of Louis Adrien Duperron de Castera’s historical novel); Love in its Variety (translation of Matteo Bandello’s stories); The Disguis'd Prince (1728) (translation of Madame de Villedieu’s 1679 novel); The Busy-Body (1741, 42) (translation of de Mouhy's novel); and The Virtuous Villager (1742) (translation of Charles de Fieux's work).

Critical reception

Haywood is notable as a transgressive, outspoken writer of amatory fiction, plays, romance and novels. Paula R. Backscheider claims that “Haywood's place in literary history is equally remarkable and as neglected, misunderstood, and misrepresented as her oeuvre” (xiii intro drama). For quite some time Eliza Haywood was most frequently noted for her appearance in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad rather than for her own literary merits. Even though Alexander Pope made her a centerpoint in the heroic games of The Dunciad in Book II--she is, in Pope's view, "vacuous"--he does not dismiss her for being a woman, but for having nothing of her own to say. Pope attacks her for politics and for, implicitly, plagiarism. Unlike other "dunces", however, Pope's characterization does not seem to have been the cause of her obscurity. Rather, as literary historians came to praise and value the masculine novel and, most importantly, to dismiss the courtship novel and to exclude novels of eroticism, Haywood's works were rejected for more chaste or more overtly philosophical works. Amatory fiction is a genre of British literature popular during the late 17th century and 18th century. ... Alexander Pope, an English poet best known for his Essay on Criticism and Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. ... Alexander Pope The Dunciad is a landmark literary satire by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times. ... Plagiarism (from Latin plagiare to kidnap) is the practice of claiming, or implying, original authorship or incorporating material from someone elses written or creative work, in whole or in part, into ones own without adequate acknowledgment. ...

In The Dunciad, the book sellers race each other to reach Eliza, and their reward will be all of her books and her company. She is for sale, in other words, in literature and society, in Pope's view. As with other "dunces", she was not without complicity in the attack. Haywood had begun to make it known that she was poor and in need of funds, and she seemed to be writing for pay and to please the undiscerning public.

Eliza Haywood is now regarded as "a case study in the politics of literary history" (Backscheider 100). She is also being reevaluated by feminist scholars and rated very highly. Interest in Haywood’s work has been growing since the 1980s. Her novels are regarded as stylistically innovative. Her plays and political writing attracted most of the attention in her own time, and she was a full player in the difficult public sphere. Feminism is a collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies largely motivated by or concerned with the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. ...

Her novels, voluminous and frequent, are now regarded as stylistically innovative and important transitions from the erotic seduction novels and poetry of Aphra Behn (particularly Love Letters between a Noble Man and His Sister (1685)) and the straightforward, plainly spoken novel of Frances Burney. In her own day, her plays and political writing attracted the most comment and attention, and thus she was a full player in the difficult public sphere, but today her novels carry the most interest and demonstrate the most significant innovation. Titlepage of Aphra Behns Love-Letters (1684) Aphra Behns Love-Letters Between a Noble-Man and his Sister (1684) became the first part of a three volume roman à clef playing with events of the Monmouth Rebellion and exploring the genre of the epistolary novel. ... Fanny Burney later Madame DArblay (June 13, 1752-January 6, 1840) was an English novelist and diarist. ...

Mary Anne Schofield's biography Eliza Haywood (1985) as well as Christine Blouch's article “The Romance of Obscurity” (1991) remain the most comprehensive resources on Haywood's background.

References

• Blouch, Christine. “Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 no. 31 (1991): 535-551.
• Backscheider, Paula R. "Eliza Haywood." In Matthew, H.C.G. and Brian Harrison, eds. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26, 97-100. London: OUP, 2004.
• Schofield, Mary Anne. Eliza Haywood. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985.
• Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Introduction. Selections from The Female Spectator: Eliza Haywood. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix-xxi.
• Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2004.

See also

• List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)
• List of early-modern women poets (UK)
• List of women novelists before Jane Austen

. ... . ... Dale Spender listed 106 women novelists before Jane Austen in her classic Mothers of the Novel: 100 good women writers before Jane Austen (1986): Penelope Aubin Jane Barker Agnes Maria Bennett Elizabeth Bonhôte Elizabeth Boyd Sophie Briscoe Eliza Bromley Frances Brooke Indiana Brooks Mary Brunton Mrs Burke Fanny Burney...

External links

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• E-text of Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze
• E-text of Idalia, or, the Unfortunate Mistress
• E-text of The Fatal Secret, or, Constancy in Distress
• E-text of The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood / Whicher, George Frisbie, 1915