Eliza haywood biography
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Eliza Haywood
English novelist and painter (c. – )
Eliza Haywood (c. – 25 February ), born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher. An increase in interest and recognition of Haywood's literary works began in the s. Described as "prolific even by the standards of a prolific age", Haywood wrote and published over 70 works in her lifetime, including fiction, drama, translations, poetry, conduct literature and periodicals.[1] Haywood today is studied primarily as one of the 18th-century founders of the novel in English.
Biography
[edit]Scholars of Eliza Haywood universally agree upon only one thing: the exact date of her death.[2] Haywood gave conflicting accounts of her own life; her origins remain unclear, and there are presently contending versions of her biography.[3] For example, it was once mistakenly believed that she married the Rev. Valentine Haywood.[4] According to report, Haywood took pains to keep her personal life private, asking the one (unnamed) person with knowledge of her private life to remain silent for fear that such facts may be misrepresented in print. Apparently, that person felt loyal enough to Haywood to honour her request.[5]
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The Warrior Women Project
By Kelly Plante
Like the characters masquerading in her early amatory fiction, Eliza Haywood’s biography is masked in obscurity. Here are some facts that scholars agree on. Haywood was born the daughter of a London shopkeeper (probably) in , married (perhaps) in about and (probably) left him between She associated early in her career with Whigs such as Richard Steele (who with Joseph Addison co-founded The Spectator, from which Haywood’s Female Spectator derives its name) and Daniel Defoe, and was publicly criticized by Alexander Pope as a “stupid, infamous, scribbling woman” in She produced little during the s and reappeared on the literary scene in as the author of The Female Spectator.
Haywood literary criticism saw a boom in the late 20th century after feminists unearthed her. Only since about , though, has her Female Spectator garnered the serious attention of scholars, despite its historically significant status as the first periodical by and for women and despite the fact that it was Haywood’s most popular work during her lifetime. Previously, scholars understood The Female Spectator as Haywood’s “testament to her shift away from the audacity that distinguished her earlier writings, toward a more sober didacticism allegedly
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