A political biography of Eliza Haywood
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A political biography of Eliza Haywood
（Eighteenth-century political biographies, no. 9）
Pickering & Chatto, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While under arrest in 1750 on suspicion of producing a seditious pamphlet Eliza Haywood insisted she 'never wrote any thing in a political way'. This study of the life and works, the first full-length biography of Haywood in nearly a century, takes the measure of her duplicity.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 'Her Approach to Fame': 1714-29
- Chapter 2 Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to Utopia
- Chapter 3 Theatrical Thirties: 1729-37
- Chapter 4 Adventures of Eovaai
- Chapter 5 At the Sign of Fame: 1741-4
- Chapter 6 The Female Spectator
- Chapter 7 The Parrot
- Chapter 8 Epistles for the Ladies
- Chapter 9 Was Haywood a Jacobite?
- Chapter 10 Epilogue: The Invisible Spy
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