Fantomina and Other Works

by Eliza Fowler Haywood

Book Overview

This collection of early works by Eliza Haywood includes the well-known novella Fantomina (1725) along with three other short, highly engaging Haywood works: The Tea-Table (1725), Reflections on the Various Effects of Love (1726), and Love-Letters on All Occasions (1730). In these writings, Haywood arouses the vicarious experience of erotic love while exploring the ethical and social issues evoked by sexual passion.

This Broadview edition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551115247
• ISBN13: 9781551115245
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Eliza Haywood, author

Loved her two novesl; Miss Betsy Thoughtless and Love in Excess. I wanted more of her works. This book of her shorter works is put together very well. She must have been an amazing woman.

An excellent teaching text!

This edition of Eliza Haywood's novels is excellent for teaching--or simply pleasure reading! The texts are clearly and helpfully annotated with definitions of older words. The editors' introduction is invaluable as a guide to the life and work of this neglected eighteenth-century writer. The title story alone is worth the price of the book. This edition is a worthy companion to Christine Blouch's edition of Haywood's novel Betsy Thoughtless, published in the same series. Perhaps after a taste of these ribald tales readers will investigate Haywood's lesser-known works, such as the Female Spectator, published in an excellent edition by Oxford University Press. They certainly merit further study and appreciation.