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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 Haywoods life and work, and on her relationship with contemporaries such as Henry Fielding.

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title:The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless Broadview Literary Texts
author:Haywood, Eliza Fowler.; Blouch, Christine.
publisher:Broadview Press
isbn10 | asin:1551111470
print isbn13:9781551111476
ebook isbn13:9780585288376
language:English
subjectMarried women--Fiction, Abused wives--Fiction, England--Fiction, Didactic fiction, Bildungsromane.
publication date:1998
lcc:PR3506.H94H5 1998eb
ddc:823/.5
subject:Married women--Fiction, Abused wives--Fiction, England--Fiction, Didactic fiction, Bildungsromane.
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The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Eliza Haywood
edited by
Christine Blouch
Page 4 1998 Christine Blouch All rights reserved The use of any part - photo 2
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1998 Christine Blouch
All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher or in the case of photocopying, a licence from CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency) 6 Adelaide Street East, Suite 900, Toronto, Ontario, M5C IH6 is an infringement of the copyright law.
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Haywood, Eliza, 1693?1756
The history of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
(Broadview literary texts)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-55111-147-0
I. Blouch, Christine. II. Title. III. Series.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
6
Introduction
7
A Note on the Text
20
Works of Eliza Haywood
21
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
25
Appendix A: Haywood's First Biographer
635
Appendix B: A Review of Betsy Thoughtless Monthly Review V (October 1751)
636
Haywood's response (from The History of Jenny and Jemmy Jessamy)
637
Appendix C: Betsy Thoughtless on Trial Proceedings at the Court of Censorial Enquiry, Etc. (Saturday, February 22, 1752.)
639
Appendix D: Reading Haywood in her own century Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance, (1785)
641
Appendix E: A Stage Adaptation of Betsy Thoughtless Robert Hitchcock, The Coquette; or, The Mistakes of the Heart (1777)
644
Select Bibliography
650

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful to many individuals whose advice and support contributed to this volume. John Elwood generously gave permission to use the research in his dissertation, the excellent critical edition of Betsy Thoughtless that should have been published long ago. I am indebted to Chandler Lyons for her work on this volume, and to Michael Listen, who helped me anticipate and answer questions that undergraduates might have about Betsy. I would also like to thank colleagues whose work and advice have contributed to this volume or to related work: Jerry Beasley, James Winn, Paula Backscheider, Wendy Motooka, Tracy Harris, Doreen Saar, and Mary Anne Schofield. My particular thanks and gratitude go to Anne Krook. I would also like to thank Don LePan and Risa Kawchuk at Broadview Press for their professionalism and their cordial and consistent offers of help, and Broadview's Barbara Conolly for her competence and spectacular acuity.
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INTRODUCTION
Eliza Haywood was established as a phenomenon in literate and literary London from the date of publication of her first novel, the best-selling Love in Excess; or, the Fatal Inquiry (1719). Prolific even by the standards of a prolific age, Haywood averaged five or more publications a year in the 1720s, when three separate collections of her works also appeared. Over the four decades of her career, she would ultimately produce more than eighty titiles. Besides the sheer volume of her publications, Haywood was a remarkably versatile writer. Her works spanned genres that seem, to the modern reader, sometimes surprising in their combinations; she wrote many kinds of fiction short stories, novellas, amatory fiction, short novels, novels as well as poetry, periodicals, political satire, plays, theatre criticism, translations, an advice manual, and a well-received musical comedy. Her best known works are generally considered to include her periodical
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