The Life And Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood, volume 11

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The Life And Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood, volume 11
Whicher George Frisbie
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During the thirty-six years of her activity the romances of Defoe and of Mrs. Jane Barker gave place to the novels of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett, yet the ''female vet- eran" kept abreast of the changes in the taste of her public and even contributed slightly to produce them. Nor was her progress accomplished without numerous difSculties and discouragements. In spite of all, however, Mrs. Hay- wood remained devoted to her calling and was still scrib- bling when the great Dr. Johnson crow
...ned the brows of Mrs. Charlotte Lennox to celebrate the publication of ''The Life of Harriot Stuart" (1750). After such recognition a career in letters was open to women without reproach.
Though unlaureled by any lexicographer, and despised by the virtuous Mrs. Lennox,* Mrs. Haywood, nevertheless, had done yeoman service in preparing the way for modest Fanny Bumey and quiet Jane Austen. Moreover she was the only one of the old tribe of romancieres who survived to join the new school of lady novelists, and in her tabloid fiction rather than in the criminal biography, or the voyage imagirimre, or the periodical essay, may best be studied the obscure but essential link between the "voluminous ex- travagances" of the "Parthenissa" kind and the hardly less long-winded histories of "Pamela" and "Clarissa." 5 The salacious landlady in Mrs.


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