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    Eliza Haywood (c. 1693 – 25 February 1756), born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher. An increase in interest and recognition...
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    Fantomina (category Novels by Eliza Haywood)
    Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze is a novel by Eliza Haywood published in 1725. In it, the protagonist disguises herself as four different women in her efforts...
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    Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry (category Novels by Eliza Haywood)
    Love in Excess (1719–20) is Eliza Haywood's best known novel. It details the amorous escapades of Count D'Elmont, a rake who becomes reformed over the...
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  • and philanthropist Eliza Hayley, English translator and essayist Eliza Haywood (c. 1693–1756), English novelist and painter Eliza Putnam Heaton (1860–1919)...
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    The Female Spectator, published by Eliza Haywood between 1744 and 1746, is generally considered to be the first periodical in English written by women...
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  • your own honour in Westminster Abbey." From April 1744 to May 1746 Eliza Haywood anonymously published The Female Spectator, a monthly periodical which...
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    short stories. The three most prominent amatory fiction writers were: Eliza Haywood (who wrote Love in Excess; Or, The Fatal Enquiry and Fantomina: Or,...
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  • ready to use their personal names rather than pseudonyms, including Eliza Haywood, who in 1719 following in the footsteps of Aphra Behn used her name...
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    John Nourse and Thomas Cooper. This translation has been attributed to Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett. The story concerns a young courtier, Amanzéï,...
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    as victims in the 18th century in England, whether in the novels of Eliza Haywood or Samuel Richardson (whose heroines in Pamela and Clarissa are both...
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