Mrs. Haywood's activities suffered something of a check after 1729, possibly owing to the savage attacks on her by Pope in _The Dunciad_ (1728).[313] At any rate, for some reason or combination of reasons, no new original works of any importance by her appeared between 1729 and 1751. Among various expedients to earn a livelihood during this period the most notable is her attempt to establish herself as a publisher in 1742, but since only two books are recorded as published by her she probably quickly found herself without the business training for such an enterprise.[314] A more notable undertaking is _The Female Spectator_ edited and at least partly written by Mrs. Haywood in April, 1744--May, 1746. She entered again the field of authorship with her best novels, _The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless_, in four volumes (1751), and _The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy_, three volumes (1752), which have the merit of faintly foreshadowing the domestic novel of a later day.[315] The paper is professedly modeled on the work of Addison and Steele. The writing purports to be by an editorial group of four ladies with Mrs. Haywood as editor-in-chief. A vivacious widow in whom lovers confide; Euphrosine, so called because of her brightness and charm; and Mira, a lady of hereditary wit, complete the quadrumvirate. Their avowed purpose is to give entertaining items of news, discuss dress, decorum, and social foibles in friendly admonition, and analyze the human heart. But there is no real emphasis except on the last of these topics. The Tenderillas, Claribellas, Elismondas, Dorindas, and the rest, pursue their amorous way from volume to volume, unconscious that the world holds any interest but love, that "noblest, softest, and the best" of all the passions. [Illustration: THE SUPPOSED EDITORS OF _THE FEMALE SPECTATOR_ BY MRS. ELIZA HAYWOOD From Vol. I of the seventh edition, 1771 Mrs. Haywood is the scribe; the lady in black is the vivacious widow of quality; the lady standing is "Euphrosine"; the other lady is "Mira"]