The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza HaywoodWhicher, George Frisbie
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The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
Whicher, George Frisbie
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756
[Another edition.] For T. Gardner. 1762. 12mo.
Arthur Header Catalogue.
66. A Wife To be Lett: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in
Drury-Lane, By his Majesty's Servants. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood.
For D. Browne junr, and S. Chapman. 1724. 8vo.
Included in Mrs. Haywood's Works, 1724.
B.M. (12613. e. 26/3). Boston Public Library (Barton Collection).
[Another edition.] The Second Edition. For D. Browne; and Sold by J.
Osborn. 1729. 12mo.
New York Public Library.
[Another edition.] For W. Feales; And Sold by J. Osborn. 1735. 12mo.
B.M. (11775. b. 44). Yale.
[An abridgment.] The Comedy of a Wife to be Lett, or, the Miser Cured,
compressed into Two Acts, by Ann Minton. For A. Seale; Ann Minton; and
all booksellers. 1802. 8vo.
B.M. (11779. b. 84).
67. The Young Lady. No. 1, 2, 3. By Euphrosine. For T. Gardner. 2d.
each.
Euphrosine, like Mira, was the name of one of the Female Spectator Club.
This was probably Mrs. Haywood's last piece of writing.
Gentleman's Magazine, Jan. 1756.
III. WORKS ATTRIBUTED TO MRS. HAYWOOD
68. The History of Cornelia. For A. Millar. 1750. 12mo.
Arthur Header Catalogue.
69. Matrimony, a Novel, containing a series of Interesting Adventures.
1755. 8vo. 2 vols.
A re-issue of The Marriage Act (1754) by John Shebbeare (D.N.B.).
Arthur Header Catalogue.
70. Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput. Written by Captain Gulliver.
Containing an Account of the Intrigues, and some other particular
Transactions of that Nation, omitted in the two Volumes of his Travels.
Published by Lucas Bennet.... For J. Roberts. 1727. 8vo.
Attributed to Mrs. Haywood by Pope.
B.M. (12510. aaa. 5). Daily Journal, 11 Jan. 1727. A second
edition was advertised for Roberts on 6 Feb. 1727 (Daily Post).
71. The Pleasant and Delightful History of Gillian of Croydon:
Containing, Her Birth and Parentage: Her first Amour, with the sudden
Death of her Sweetheart: Her leaving her Father's House In Disguise, and
becoming Deputy to a Country Midwife; with a very odd and humoursome
Adventure before a Justice of the Peace, for screening a Child under her
Hoop-petticoat: Her discovery of a Love-Intrigue between her Mistress's
Daughter, and a perjur'd, false-hearted Young-man, which she relates in
the tragical History of William and Margaret: Her Account of a Country
Wedding in Kent; with several merry Passages which attended it.
Illustrated with suitable Cuts.
The Whole done much after the same Method as those celebrated Novels, by
MRS. ELIZA HAYWOOD. For A. Bettesworth. 1727. 12mo.
A chap-book, not by Mrs. Haywood.
B.M. (12410. a. 28).
IV. WORKS PUBLISHED BY MRS. HAYWOOD
At the end of the first volume of The Virtuous Villager, 1742, occurs
the following advertisement:
New Books, sold by Eliza Haywood, Publisher, at the Sign of Fame in
Covent-Garden.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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