The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood
Subtitle: Essays on Her Life and Work
Contributors: Kirsten T. Saxton (Editor); Rebecca P. Bocchicchio (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780813121611
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 18th Century English Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; England; Essays; General; Haywood, Eliza Fowler; Novelists, English; Women and literature; 1693?-1756; 18th century; Biography; Haywood, Eliza Fowler,; History
First sentence: At least since Clara Reeve's Progress of Romance (1785), The Story has been that, for purely commercial reasons, Eliza Haywood "reformed" and became a moral novelist.