ted the subject of
this research, whose sage and kindly supervision fostered the work
through every stage in its development, and for whose forthcoming "Life
and Times of Daniel Defoe" this monograph is intended as a footnote.

G.F.W.

URBANA, ILLINOIS.

[a] Through the kindness of Professor J.M. Clapp I am provided with the
following evidence of the decline of Eliza Haywood's popularity. In
W. Bent's _General Catalogue of Books_ (1786) fourteen of her
productions are advertised, namely: _Works_, 4 vols; _Clementina;
Dalinda; Epistles for the Ladies; La Belle Assemblee; Female
Spectator; Fortunate Foundlings; Fruitless Enquiry; Jemmy and Jenny
Jessamy; Betsy Thoughtless; The Husband; Invisible Spy; Life's
Progress through the Passions; Virtuous Villager_. In 1791 only
four--_Clementina; Dalinda; Female Spectator; Jemmy and Jenny
Jessamy_--appeared in Bent's _London Catalogue_, and of these the
first two had fallen in value from 3/6 to 3 shillings.

CONTENTS

I. ELIZA HAYWOOD'S LIFE

II. SHORT ROMANCES OF PASSION

III. THE DUNCAN CAMPBELL PAMPHLETS

IV. SECRET HISTORIES AND SCANDAL NOVELS

V. THE HEROINE OF "THE DUNCIAD"

VI. LETTERS AND ESSAYS

VII. LATER FICTION: THE DOMESTIC NOVEL

VIII. CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST

INDEX

THE LIFE AND ROMANCES OF MRS. ELIZA HAYWOOD

CHAPTER I

ELIZA HAYWOOD'S LIFE

Autobiography was almost the only form of writing not attempted by Eliza
Haywood in the course of her long career as an adventuress in letters.
Unlike Mme de Villedieu or Mrs. Manley she did not publish the story of
her life romantically disguised as the Secret History of Eliza, nor was
there One of the Fair Sex (real or pretended) to chronicle her "strange
and surprising adventures" or to print her passion-stirring epistles, as
had happened with Mrs. Aphra Behn's fictitious exploits and amorous
correspondence[1]. Indeed the first biographer of Mrs. Haywood[2] hints
that "from a supposition of some improper liberties being taken with her
character after death by the intermixture of truth and falsehood with
her history," the apprehensive dame had herself suppressed the facts of
her life by laying a "solemn injunction on a person who was well
acquainted with all the particulars of it, not to communicate to any one
the least circumstance relating to her." The success of her precaution
is evident in the scantine