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
[19]
Compare the picture of Gloatitia, for instance, with the following of a
lady in _La Belle Assemblée_, I, 22. "To form any Idea of what she was,
one must imagine all that can be conceived of Perfection--the most
blooming Youth, the most delicate Complection, Eyes that had in them all
the Fire of Wit, and Tenderness of Love, a Shape easy, and fine
proportion'd Limbs; and to all this, a thousand unutterable Graces
accompanying every Air and little Motion."
[20]
Miss C.E. Morgan, _The Novel of Manners_, 221. _Bath-Intrigues_ was
included in Mrs. Haywood's Works, 1727. Another work contained in the
same two volumes, _The Perplex'd Duchess; or, Treachery Rewarded: Being
some Memoirs of the Court of Malfy. In a Letter from a Sicilian
Nobleman, who had his Residence there, to his Friend in London_ (1728),
may be a scandal novel, though the title suggests a reworking of
Webster's _Duchess of Malfi_. I have not seen the book.
[21]
Ascribed to Mrs. Haywood in the advertisements of her additional
_Works_, 1727. The B.M. copy, catalogued under "Ariel," contains only a
fragment of 24 pages.
[22]
Miss M.P. Conant, _The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth
Century (1908), passim._
[23]
The "key" is almost the sole contribution to Mrs. Haywood's bibliography
in Bohn's Lowndes. Most of the personages mentioned are described in the
notes of John Wilson Croker's _Letters to and from the Countess of
Suffolk_ (1824).
[24]
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. by F. Elrington Ball (1913),
Vol. IV, 264, 266. The Countess of Suffolk, in a playful attack on
Swift, wrote (25 Sept. 1731) ... "I should not have despaired, that ...
this Irish patriot ... should have closed the scene under suspicions of
having a violent passion for Mrs. Barber, and Lady M---- [Montagu] or
Mrs. Haywood have writ the progress of it." In reply Swift wrote (26
Oct. 1731) that he could not guess who was intended by Lady M---- and
that he had heard Mrs. Haywood characterized in the terms quoted above.
[25]
Elwin and Courthope's _Pope_, III, 279.
CHAPTER V
THE HEROINE OF "THE DUNCIAD"
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