Eliza Fowler Haywood
Female : Novelist &
Playwright. Married the Rev Valentine Haywood in 1711, but by 1721 she
had left him and was living in London, working as a writer and actress.
She ran her own publishing business for a while in the 1740s
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : London
Date of Birth : 1693 Date of Death : 1756 Age : 63
1719-1723
Love in Excess, or The Fatal Enquiry (1719-20)
(Trans) Letters from a Lady of Quality to a Chevalier (1721)
The Fair Captive : A Tragedy (1721 Jauncy & Cole, London)
Offered in 1999 for £800
The British Recluse, or the Secret History of Leomira, Suppos'd Dead (1722)
The Injur'd Husband, or The Mistaken Resentment (1723)
Idalia, or The Unfortunate Mistress (1723)
Lasselia, or The self Abandoned (1723)
1724
A Wife to be Lett : A Comedy (1724)
The Rash resolve, or the Untimely Discovery (1724)
The Arragonian Queen : A Secret History (1724)
The Fatal Secret, or Constancy in Distress (1724)
A Spy Upon the Conjurer (1724)
The Surprise, or Constancy rewarded (1724)
(Trans) La Belle Assemblee, or the Adventures of Six Days (1724-6)
The Tea-Table, or a Conversation between some Polite Persons of Both Sexes,
at a Lady's Visting Day (1724)
The Masqueraders, or Fatal Curiosity (1724)
The Works of Mrs Eliza Haywood (1724)
1725-1726
The Memoirs of Baron de Brosse (1725)
Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (1725)
The Unqequal Conflict, or Nature Triumphant (1725)
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1725)
Bath Intrigues (1725)
Secret Histories, Novels and Poems (1725)
The Mercenary lover, or The Unfortunate Heiresses (1726)
The City Jilt, or the Alderman Turn'd Beau (1726)
1727-1730
Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania (1727)
Letters from the Palace of Fame (1727)
The fruitless Inquiry (1727)
Cleomelia, or the Generous Mistress (1727)
The Life of Mme. Villesache (1727)
(Trans) Love in It's Variety (1727)
Philidore and Placentia, or L'Amour trop delicat (1727)
The Agreeable Caledonian (1728)
Irish Artifice, or The History of Clarina (1728)
Persecuted Virtue, or The Cruel Lover (1728)
The Perplex'd Dutchess, or Treachery rewarded (1728)
Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh : A Tragedy (1729)
The Fair Hebrew (1729)
Love Letters on All Occasions Lately Passed between Persons of Distinction (1730)
1731-1750
Secret Memoirs of the Late Mr Duncan Campbell (1732)
The Opera of Operas, or Tom Thumb the Great (1733)
(Trans) L'Entrien des Beaux Espirits : Being the Sequel to La Belle Assemblee (1734)
The Adventures of Eovaai, princess of Ijaveo (1736)
Anti-Pamela, or Feign'd Innocence Detected (1741)
(Trans) The Virtuous Villager or Virgin's Victory (1742)
A Present for a servant-Maid, or The Sure Means of Gaining Love and Esteem (1743)
The Fortunate Foundlings : being the Genuine History of Colonel M ...rs and His Sister (1744)
The Female Spectator (1744-6)
The Parrot (1746)
Life's Progress Through the Passions, or The Adventures of Natura (1748)
Epistles for the Ladies (1749-50)
After 1751
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751) (1772 for H Gardner, London) - 4 vols
The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy (1753) (1785 Harrison, London) - 3 vols in 1
The Invisible Spy (1754)
The Wife (1756)
The Husband : In Answer to the Wife (1756 for T Gardner, London)
The History of Miss Leonora Meadowson (1788)
Plays of Eliza Haywood (1979)
Four Novels of Eliza Haywood (1983)
READING
G F Whicher : The Life and Roamnces of Mrs Eliza Haywood (1913)
M A Schofield : Quiet Rebellion - The Fictional Heroines of Eliza Fowler Haywood (1982)
(Ed) Gabrielle Firmager : Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator
(1993 Duckworth/Bristol Classical Press)