A Political Biography of Eliza Haywood

Kathryn R. King

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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 her life and works, the first full-length biography in almost a century, views Haywood's life through the prism of her shifting political allegiances. Known today for her novels of sexual passion, Haywood wrote much in the ‘political way’. She exposed ongoing financial corruptions in her early scandal chronicles. By the mid-1730s she had joined the campaign to topple Walpole, attacking him in the blistering Oriental satire Eovaai (1736) and performing on stage in Fielding’s final plays at the Haymarket. She sold anti-ministerial propaganda at her own pamphlet-shop at the 'Sign of Fame' in Covent Garden, wrote a Jacobite weekly paper attacking the Duke of Cumberland and promoted the mid-century cult of the Patriot Prince in the deceptively entitled Epistles to the Ladies (1749–50).

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Abbreviations
pp ix-x

Biographical Prolegomenon
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-16

1 - ‘Her Approach to Fame’: 1714–29
pp 17-34

2 - Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to Utopia
pp 35-54

3 - Theatrical Thirties: 1729–37
pp 55-72

4 - Adventures of Eovaai
pp 73-94

5 - At the Sign of Fame: 1741–4
pp 95-110

6 - The Female Spectator
pp 111-132

7 - The Parrot
pp 133-154

8 - Epistles for the Ladies
pp 155-176

9 - Was Haywood a Jacobite?
pp 177-192

Epilogue: The Invisible Spy
pp 193-202

Notes
pp 203-242

Works Cited
pp 243-258

Index
pp 259-267

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