The history of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy
By: by Eliza Haywood ; edited by John Richetti.
Contributors: Richetti, John J.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780813123592; 9780813191430
Subjects: Courtship -- Fiction.; Commitment (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, originally published as three volumes in 1753, is the last work by the prolific English novelist Eliza Haywood. Out of print since the early nineteenth century and never available in an edited and fully-annotated modern edition such as this, Haywood's novel is an important early example of the sentimental novel of domestic manners. In its depiction of marriage and courtship among the leisure class of the mid-eighteenth century, Haywood's novel is remarkable for its unsentimental realism. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ).