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The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless de Eliza Haywood

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

Autor Eliza Haywood
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 sep 2014
First published in 1751, this sophisticated, multi-plot novel has been recognised as the first novel of female development in the English language and marked an important change in the 18th century novel.
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ISBN-13: 9781406852011
ISBN-10: 1406852015
Pagini: 484
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Echo Library

Notă biografică

Eliza Haywood (1693-1756) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, actress, and publisher. Notoriously private, Haywood is a major figure in English literature about whom little is known for certain. Scholars believe she was born Eliza Fowler in Shropshire or London, but are unclear on the socioeconomic status of her family. She first appears in the public record in 1715, when she performed in an adaptation of Shakespeare¿s Timon of Athens in Dublin. Famously portrayed as a woman of ill-repute in Alexander Pope¿s Dunciad (1743), it is believed that Haywood had been deserted by her husband to raise their children alone. Pope¿s account is likely to have come from poet Richard Savage, with whom Haywood was friends for several years beginning in 1719 before their falling out. This period coincided with the publication of Love in Excess (1719-1720), Haywood¿s first and best-known novel. Alongside Delarivier Manley and Aphra Behn, Haywood was considered one of the leading romance writers of her time. Haywood¿s novels, such as Idalia; or The Unfortunate Mistress (1723) and The Distress¿d Orphan; or Love in a Madhouse (1726), often explore the domination and oppression of women by men. The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751), one of Haywood¿s final novels, is a powerful story of a woman who leaves her abusive husband, experiences independence, and is pressured to marry once more. Highly regarded by feminist scholars today, Haywood was a prolific writer who revolutionized the English novel while raising a family, running a pamphlet shop in Covent Gardens, and pursuing a career as an actress and writer for some of London¿s most prominent theaters.

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Prolific even by eighteenth-century standards, Eliza Haywood was the author of more than eighty titles, including short fiction, novels, periodicals, plays, poetry, and a political pamphlet for which she was briefly jailed. From her early successes (most notably Love in Excess) to later novels such as Betsy Thoughtless (her best known work) she remained widely read, yet sneered at as a 'stupid, infamous, scribbling woman' by the likes of Swift and Pope.

Betsy Thoughtless is the story of the slow metamorphosis of the heroine from thoughtless coquette to thoughtful wife. Ironically, the most decisive moment in this development may be when Betsy decides to leave her emotionally abusive and financially punishing husband; it is only after experiencing independence that she returns to her marriage and to what becomes her husbands deathbed. Betsy Thoughtless may be the first real novel of female development in English. In this edition the text is accompanied by appendices, including writings from the period that shed light on Haywood's life and work, and on her relationship with contemporaries such as Henry Fielding.