The History of Miss Betsy ThoughtlessBroadview Press, 1998 M05 25 - 656 páginas Prolific even by eighteenth-century standards, Eliza Haywood was the author of more than eighty titles, including short fiction, novels, periodicals, plays, poetry, and a political pamphlet for which she was briefly jailed. From her early successes (most notably Love in Excess) to later novels such as Betsy Thoughtless (her best known work) she remained widely read, yet sneered at as a ‘stupid, infamous, scribbling woman’ by the likes of Swift and Pope. Betsy Thoughtless is the story of the slow metamorphosis of the heroine from thoughtless coquette to thoughtful wife. Ironically, the most decisive moment in this development may be when Betsy decides to leave her emotionally abusive and financially punishing husband; it is only after experiencing independence that she returns to her marriage and to what becomes her husbands deathbed. Betsy Thoughtless may be the first real novel of female development in English. In this edition the text is accompanied by appendices, including writings from the period that shed light on Haywood’s life and work, and on her relationship with contemporaries such as Henry Fielding. |
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Acknowledgements | 6 |
Introduction | 7 |
A Note on the Text | 19 |
Works of Eliza Haywood | 21 |
THE HISTORY OF MISS BETSY THOUGHTLESS | 25 |
Haywoods First Biographer | 635 |
A Review of Betsy thoughtless | 637 |
Betsy Thoughtless on Trial Proceedings at the Court of Censorial Enquiry Etc Saturday February 22 1752 | 639 |
Reading Haywood in her own century Clara Reeve The Progress of Romance 1785 | 641 |
A Stage Adaptation of Betsy Thoughtless Robert Hitchcock the Coquette or The Mistakes of the Heart 1777 | 644 |
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The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless: In Four Volumes. ... Eliza Fowler Haywood Vista completa - 1762 |