Eliza Haywood

Eliza Haywood , born Fowler in 1693 in the Shropshire and died in London the February 25th 1756, is a Actrice, Journaliste, English Dramaturge and écrivaine .

Prolific Écrivaine, Eliza Haywood, during its life, wrote in many kinds, publishing more than seventy esques works Romance, theatrical are, poetic S, of the Traduction S, the moral literature and of the Périodique S. She is regarded at the present time as one of the founders of the English novel. Several of its works were published without name of author.

Origins

The origins of Eliza Haywood are not very clear, this one having given contradictory accounts of its own life. Some details are however largely accepted, such as its probable birth in the Shropshire, its first appearance in the public sphere with Dublin in 1715 when it was listed under the name of Mrs Haywood in the Timon of Athens of Shakespeare by Thomas Shadwell, its relation with William Hatchett, the father of its second child or the fact that it also had a child with Richard Savage.

Haywood made its beginnings in literature in 1719 with the first two episodes of the novel Love in Excess; However, Fatal The Enquiry , and its literary career was completed the year of its death with two books of morals the Wife and the Husband and the twice-weekly periodical The Young Lady . many aspects of its literary career remain still unknown. Fallen sick in October 1755, it was buried with Westminster.

Novels

Haywood formed part, with Delarivier Manley and Aphra Behn, of the Fair Triumvirate off Wit . These three écrivaines are regarded as the most eminent auteures of the known English literary kind under the name of “fiction in love”. One distinguishes in the prose of Eliza Haywood, an evolution like the love stories towards works in more feminist matter.

One of its most known novels of Haywood is Anti-Pamela, or False innocence discovered. History true and attested by the experiment of the every day. Written to be used as condom to young people against the tricks of the vain ones. (1741), satirical counterpart of the didactic novel Pamela, or the virtue rewarded (1740) for Samuel Richardson, where she scoffs the idea to negotiate her virginity against a place in the company.

Theater

Haywood began its dramatic career in 1715 in Smock Alley Theater from Dublin. In 1720, it settles in Lincoln' S Inn Fields where John Rich requires of him to rewrite a part entitled The Fair Captive . In 1724, it wrote its first part entitled has Wife to Be Lett . Its greater success in Haymarket was The Opera off Operas , an adaptation to the opera of Tragedy off Tragedies of Fielding. In 1735, it wrote Companion to the Theater which contains summaries of contemporary parts, Critique arts person and observations dramaturgic, followed by the second volume in 1747.

Journalism

Eliza Haywood also worked for periodicals, on tests and handbooks of social behavior. In the monthly periodical, The Female Spectator (4 vol., 1744-46), Haywood wrote under four names different (Reflected, Euphrosine, Veuve of quality and the female Spectator) in answer to the contemporary newspaper The Spectator from Addison and Steele, to take position on public questions such as the marriage, the children, the reading, education and control. First periodical written by a woman for women, The Female Spectator indisputably represents the most significant contribution of Haywood to the female writing.

Tests

In Reflections one the Various Effects off Coils (1726) shows the double standard which makes it possible to the men to freely like without social consequence in comparison with scandal that the women cause who do as much of it.

Policy

Eliza Haywood was politically committed during all its career, writing a series of parallel stories, to start with the Memoirs off has Certain Island, Adjacent to Utopia (1724), then The Secret History off the Present Intrigues off the Court off Caramania in (1727). In 1746, it undertook another newspaper, The Parrot , which drew to it the attention of the government, and more still with the publication of Letter from H has ** G **** G, Esq. in 1750. Its political commitment became more direct with The Invisible Spy in 1755 and The Wife in 1756.

Critical reception

Haywood is notable like transgressive auteure and without turnings of fictions in love, parts and novels. One remembered a long time it more often for his appearance in Dunciade of Pope than for his own literary merit. Though Pope made him a central point in the heroic plays of Dunciade (delivers II) Pope draws aside it not because of its sex, but because it does not have anything to say into clean: it finds it “vacuum”. Pope the attack for its political opinions and, implicitly, Plagiarism. Works of Haywood were put at the variation when the historians of the literature started to approve and appreciate the male novel and, to prefer purer works or more obviously more philosophical with the profit of the erotic novels.

Today, Haywood was considerably revalued with the rise by feminist research . Since the Eighties, the interest for its work increased. From its time, they are its political theater and its writings which attracted the majority of the comments and the attention, but today these are its novels, whose style is regarded as innovator, which arouses the most interest.

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