The history of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy:
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Main Author: Haywood, Eliza Fowler (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington University Press of Kentucky ©2005
Series:Eighteenth-century novels by women
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Item Description:Previously published: London : Printed for T. Gardner, 1753. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-412)
The author of over eighty novels, plays, and volumes of poetry, Eliza Haywood is one of the most prolific and high-profile female authors of the eighteenth century. Her last novel, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, is original for its unsentimental realism in its depiction of marriage and courtship among the leisure classes of the mid-eighteenth century. In his new introduction, editor John Richetti examines how Haywood's amusing and engaging prose explores the subtleties of eighteenth-century courtship. Out of print since the early nineteenth century, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Je
Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Note on the Text; Volume I; Volume II; Volume III; Notes; Selected Bibliography
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xli, 412 pages)
ISBN:0813171873
9780813171876

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