Selected fiction and drama of Eliza Haywood
By: edited by Paula R. Backscheider.
Contributors: Backscheider, Paula R.
Series: Women writers in English 1350-1850
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Women -- England -- Literary collections.; England -- Literary collections.
Description: 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. --PUBLISHER DESCRIPTON.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A wife to be lett; title: The city jilt; title: The mercenary lover; title: From The fruitless enquiry; title: The opera of operas; title: From The adventures of Eovaai; title: From The invisible spy; title: From The wife.