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The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood. Electronic edition. book cover

The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood. Electronic edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-645-7
Language: English
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Detail: Eliza Haywood, engraving by G. Vertue after a portrait by James Parmentier; first published 12 August 1723 as a frontispiece to the "Fifth" edition of Ab.1.5a Love in Excess.
Public breakfasting is an invention which the projectors of time-killing methods have found out to rob husbands of their wives, children of their parents, and houses of their mistresses, nay Heaven too of its due at those very hours in which their presence is most required. . . .

The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood. The Wife, Sect. XI

Haywood, Eliza. The Selected Works of Eliza Haywood. Edited by Alexander Pettit et al. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2000-2001.

  • Vol. 1: Miscellaneous Writings, 1725-43
  • Vol. 2: Epistles for the Ladies
  • Vol. 3: The Wife, The Husband, and the Young Lady
  • Vol. 4: The Dramatic Historiographer and The Parrot
  • Vol. 5: The Female Spectator. Vols. I and II
  • Vol. 6: The Female Spectator. Vols. III & IV

Notes

Editorial board:

  • Alexander Pettit, University of North Texas. He is author of the award-winning Illusory Consensus: Bolingbroke and the Polemical Response to Walpole, 1730-1737 (1997), and of many essays on Haywood and her contemporaries.
  • Margo Collins, University of North Texas. Her work has appeared in Comparative Drama and in Complexity in the Classroom (1998).
  • Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware. He is author of Novels of the 1740s (1982) and Tobias Smollett: Novelist (1998), and compiler of English Fiction 1600-1800: A Guide to Information Sources (1972).
  • Christine Blouch, Broadley University. She is author of the pioneering biographical essay “Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity” (1991). She has edited Haywood’s The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1997).
  • Kathryn King, University of Montevallo. She is author of many essays on Haywood and her contemporaries; she has recently completed a critical biography of Jane Barker.

Pettit and Blouch make the most far-reaching contribution to Haywood studies with their multi-volume set, of which only Part I was available for this review . . . . The critical apparatus of the edition is useful without being intrusive, assuming a specialist audience. The textual introductions are kept deliberately brief, headnotes deal primarily with bibliographical history and the place of the work in Haywood’s oeuvre, and the annotations make no attempt to be exhaustive, keeping the focus on the ‘rich compendia of data’ that are Haywood’s texts (I.xii). . . . Blouch’s biography makes a number of significant corrections to previous views of Haywood’s life, providing a more accurate biographical context for the works published in the edition and for current critical understanding of Haywood’s life and career.

—Kathleen B Grathwol
Eighteenth-Century Studies

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