TY - BOOK ID - 77904351 TI - The passionate fictions of Eliza Haywood AU - Saxton, Kirsten T AU - Bocchicchio, Rebecca P PY - 2000 SN - 0813147638 9780813147635 0813121612 9780813121611 0813126789 PB - Lexington University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Women and literature KW - Novelists, English KW - History KW - Haywood, Eliza Fowler, KW - Haywood, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904351 AB - The most prolific woman writer of the eighteenth century, Eliza Haywood (1693-1756?) was a key player in the history of the English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to the emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett.Also one of Augustan England's most popular authors, Haywood came to fame in 1719 with the publication of her first novel, Love in Excess. In addition to writing fiction, she was a playwright, translator, bookseller, actress, theater critic, and editor of The Female Spectator, the first English pe ER -