Eliza Haywood, we salute you! Congratulations to one of the most prolific, and by her contemporaries’ standards most scandalous, authors in the eighteenth century on the publication of her 33rd work Letters to the Palace of Fame. Written by a First Minister in the Regions of Air, to an Inhabitant of this World. Translated form an Arabian Manuscript on this day in 1726! Producing a novel “on average every three months”, as Ros Ballaster writes in Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1648 to 1740 (1992), Haywood’s oeuvre eventually encompassed 80 titles. Although Letters to the Palace of Fame is a rare work, there are plenty of other works by Haywood in the Chawton House Library collection to be enjoyed. Volumes of her well-known works Love in Excess, or The Fatal Enquiry, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, and first and early editions of titles such as The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy or The Adventures of Eovaai, plays such as The Wife to Lett. Her periodical The Female Spectator inspired the CHL newsletter, which is sent to the library’s Friends four times a year.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:20:04 +0000
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