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ELIZA HAYWOOD (c. 1693-1756)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 116 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAYWOOD (c. 1693-1756)  , See also:English writer, daughter of a See also:London tradesman named See also:Fowler, was See also:born about 1693 . She made an See also:early and unhappy See also:marriage with a See also:man named See also:Haywood, and her See also:literary enemies circulated scandalous stories about her, possibly founded on her See also:works rather than her real See also:history . She appeared on the See also:stage as early as 1715, and in 1721 she revised for See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn See also:Fields The See also:Fair See also:Captive, by a See also:Captain See also:Hurst . Two other pieces followed, but Eliza Haywood made her See also:mark as a follower of Mrs See also:Manley in See also:writing scandalous and voluminous novels . To See also:Memoirs of a certain See also:Island adjacent to See also:Utopia, written by a celebrated author of that See also:country . Now translated into English (1725), she appended a See also:key in which the characters were explained by See also:initials denoting living persons . The names are supplied to these initials in the copy in the See also:British Museum . The See also:Secret History of the See also:Present Intrigues of the See also:Court of Caramania (1727) was explained in a similar manner . The See also:style of these productions is as extravagant as their See also:matter . See also:Pope attacked her in a coarse passage in The Dunciad (bk. ii . II . 257 et seq.), which is aggravated by a See also:note alluding to the " profligate licentiousness of those shameless scribblers (for the most See also:part of that See also:sex which ought least to be capable of such malice or impudence) who in libellous Memoirs and Novels reveal the faults or misfortunes of both sexes, tothe ruin of public fame, or disturbance of private happiness." See also:Swift, writing to See also:Lady See also:Suffolk, says, "Mrs Haywood I have heard of as a stupid, infamous, scribbling woman, but have not seen any of her productions." She continued to be a prolific writer of novels until her See also:death on the 25th of See also:February 1756, but her later works are characterized by extreme propriety, though.an See also:anonymous See also:story of The Fortunate Foundlings (1744), purporting to he an See also:account of the See also:children of See also:Lord See also:Charles See also:Manners, is generally ascribed to her .

A collected edition of her novels, plays and poems appeared in 1724, and her Secret Histories, Novels and Poems in 1725 . See also an See also:

article by S . L . See also:Lee in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography .

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