Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood

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.

Paula R. Backscheider is the Pepperell Eminent Scholar at Auburn University

Foreword

ix

(2)

Acknowledgements

xi

(2)

Introduction

xiii

(31)

Selected Bibliography

xliv

(2)

Note on the Texts

xlvi

A Wife to Be Lett: A Comedy (1724)

1

(82)

The City Jilt; or, The Alderman Turn'd Beau: A Secret History (1726)

83

(38)

The Mercenary Lover: or, The Unfortunate Heiresses (1726)

121

(42)

From The Fruitless Enquiry (1727)

163

(8)

The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great (1733)

171

(50)

From Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo (1736)

221

(22)

From The Invisible Spy (1755)

243

(56)

From The Wife (1756)

299

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Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood

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