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The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Paperback, New edition)
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The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Paperback, New edition)
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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.
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