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
[2]
Mme de Villedieu, _Annales galantes de Grece_ and _Les exiles de la cour
d'Auguste_. Mme Durand-Bedacier, _Les belles Grecques, ou l'histoire des
plus fameuses courtisanes de la Grece._
[3]
B.M. Catalogue.
[4]
A. Lang, _History of English Literature_ (1912), 458. See _ante_, p. 25.
[5]
Re-issued as _The Unfortunate Princess, or, the Ambitious Statesman_,
1741.
[6]
J.E. Wells, _Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wilde_, PMLA,
XXVIII, No. I, pp. 1-55. March, 1913. See also _The Secret History of
Mama Oello_, 1733. "The Curaca Robilda's Character [i.e. Sir Robert
Walpole's] will inform you that there were Evil Ministers even amongst
the simple Indians" ... and _The Statesman's Progress: Or, Memoirs of
the Life, Administration, and Fall of Houly Chan, Primier Minister to
Abensader, Emperor of China_ (1733).
[7]
A.C. Ewald, _Sir Robert Walpole_ (1878), 444.
[8]
A.C. Ewald, _Sir Robert Walpole_, 450.
[9]
Lord Hervey's _Memoirs_, London, 1884, II, 143.
[10]
_The Unfortunate Princess_, 18, etc.
[11]
_Memoirs of a Certain Island_, II, 249. "Marama [the Duchess of
Marlborough] has been for many Years a Grandmother; but Age is the
smallest of her Imperfections:--She is of a Disposition so perverse and
peevish, so designing, mercenary, proud, cruel, and revengeful, that it
has been a matter of debate, if she were really Woman, or if some Fiend
had not assumed that Shape on purpose to affront the Sex, and fright
Mankind from Marriage."
[12]
J. Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes_, III, 649, records the tradition that
Chapman was the publisher of Mrs. Haywood's _Utopia_.
[13]
Anne Mason, formerly Lady Macclesfield, and the Earl of Rivers, whom
Savage claimed as his father.
[14]
She had a way of rechristening her friends by romantic titles. See her
poem, "To Mr. Walter Bowman ... Occasion'd by his objecting against my
giving the Name of Hillarius to Aaron Hill, Esq."
[15]
_Memoirs of a Certain Island_, I, 43-7 condensed.
[16]
For an account of Clio see an article by Bolton Corney, "James Thomson
and David Mallet," _Athenaeum_, II, 78, 1859. And Miss Dorothy Brewster,
_Aaron Hill_, 188. Her unsavory biography entitled _Clio, or a Secret
History of the Amours of Mrs. S-n--m_, was still known at the time of
_Polly Honeycombe_, 1760.
[17]
_The Authors of the Town; a Satire. Inscribed to the Author of the
Universal Passion_. For J. Roberts, 1725. A number of lines from this
poem appear later in Savage's "On False Historians," _Poems_ (Cooke's
ed.), II, 189.
[18]
_Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu_, Everyman edition, 4.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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