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

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Saxton, Kirsten T., 1965- (HerausgeberIn), Bocchicchio, Rebecca P., 1967- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2000.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-347) and index.
ISBN:9780813147635
0813147638

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