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Selections from The Female Spectator (Paperback, New)
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Selections from The Female Spectator (Paperback, New)
Series: Women Writers in English 1350-1850
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After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important English
female novelist of the early eighteenth century. She also edited
several serial newspapers, the most important of which, the Female
Spectator, was the first modern periodical written by a woman and
addressed to a female audience. This fully annotated collection of
articles selected from the Female Spectator includes romantic and
satiric fiction, moral essays, and social commentary, covering the
broad range of concerns shared by eighteenth-century middle-class
women. Perhaps most compelling to a twentieth-century audience is
the evidence of what we might be tempted to call feminist
awareness.
By no means revolutionary in her attitudes, Haywood nonetheless
perceives the inequities of her periods social conditions for
women. She offers pragmatic advice, such as how to avoid disastrous
marriages, how to deal with wandering husbands, and what kind of
education women should seek. The essays also report on a broad
range of social actualities, from the craze for tea drinking and
the dangers of gossip to the problem of compulsive gambling. They
allude to such larger matters as politics, war, and diplomacy, and
promote the importance of science and the urgency of developing
informed relations with nature.
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