Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) was one of the first women in England to
earn a living writing fiction. Her early tales of amorous intrigue,
sometimes based on real people, were exceedingly popular though
controversial. Haywood, along with her contemporary Daniel Defoe,
did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction in
the period just prior to the emergence of Samuel Richardson, Henry
Fielding, and Tobias Smollett, the dominant novelists of the
mid-eighteenth century. The scheming, sexually predatory
anti-heroine of The Injur'd Husband is a memorable villain who
defies all expectations of a woman's conduct in marriage. The
heroine of Lasselia is initially a model of virtue who bravely
resists the advances of a king, only to be driven by her passion
and desire into an illicit affair with a married man and ultimately
into ruin. These two provocative narratives strikingly represent
Haywood's extraordinary contribution to the development of the
novel.
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