[27] See the Preface to _The Injur'd Husband_ quoted in Chap. IV. [28] Preface to _The Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse_ (1725). A similar complaint had appeared in the Dedication of _The Fair Captive_ (1721). "For my own part ... I suffer'd all that Apprehension could inflict, and found I wanted many more Arguments than the little Philosophy I am Mistress of could furnish me with, to enable me to stem that Tide of Raillery, which all of my Sex, unless they are very excellent indeed, must expect, when once they exchange the Needle for the Quill." [29] See a poem by Aaron Hill, _To Eliza upon her design'd Voyage into Spain_ (undated), Hill's _Works_, III, 363. Also _The Husband_, 59. "On a trip I was once taking to France, an accident happen'd to detain me for some days at Dover," etc. Mrs. Haywood's relations with Hill have been excellently discussed by Miss Dorothy Brewster, _Aaron Hill_ (1913), 186. [30] The first of these was a translation of the Chevalier de Mouhy's best known work, _La Mouche, ou les Aventures et espiègleries facétieuses de Bigand_, (1730), and may have been done by Mrs. Haywood herself. The second title certainly savors of a typical Haywoodian production, but I have been unable to find a copy of these alleged publications. Neither of them was originally published at the Sign of Fame, and they could hardly have been pirated, since Cogan, who issued the volume wherein the advertisement appeared, was also the original publisher of _The Busy-Body_. The _Anti-Pamela_ had already been advertised for Huggonson in June, 1741, and had played a small part in the series of pamphlets, novels, plays, and poems excited by Richardson's fashionable history. If Mrs. Haywood wrote it, she was biting the hand that fed her, for _The Virtuous Villager_ probably owed its second translation and what little sale it may have enjoyed to the similarity between the victorious virgin and the popular Pamela. [31] B.M. (MSS. Sloane. 4059. ff. 144), undated. [32] _Monthly Review_, II, 167, Jan. 1750. [33] The _Biographia Dramatica_ gives this date. Clara Reeve, _Progress of Romance_, I, 121, however, gives 1758, while Mrs. Griffith, _Collection of Novels_ (1777), II, 159, prefers 1759. The two novels were _Clementina_ (1768), a revision of _The Agreeable Caledonian_, and _The History of Leonora Meadowson_ (1788). CHAPTER II SHORT ROMANCES OF PASSION