After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early eighteenth century. In the 1740s and 50s Haywood also edited several serial newspapers, the most important being The Female Spectator which appeared every month from April 1744 to May 1746 and was written with a markedly female audience in mind. The first modern periodical both written by a woman and addressed to a female audience, The Female Spectator takes up exciting themes found in Haywood's short fiction.
| ISBN: | 9780195109221 |
| Publication date: | 18th March 1999 |
| Author: | Eliza Haywood |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Women Writers in English 1350-1850 |
| Genres: |
Literary essays Gender studies: women and girls |