Selections from the Female Spectator

by Eliza Fowler Haywood

Book Overview

After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important English female novelist of the early eighteenth century. She also edited several serial newspapers, the most important of which, the Female Spectator, was the first modern periodical written by a woman and addressed to a female audience. This fully annotated collection of articles selected from the Female Spectator includes romantic and satiric fiction, moral essays, and social commentary, covering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195109228
• ISBN13: 9780195109221
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"