The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by George Frisbie Whicher
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The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
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Title: The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
Author: George Frisbie Whicher
Release Date: January 31, 2004 [EBook #10889]
Language: English
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THE LIFE AND ROMANCES OF
MRS. ELIZA HAYWOOD
BY
GEORGE FRISBIE WHICHER, PH.D.
INSTRUCTOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
1915
_This Monograph has been approved by the Department of English and Comparative Literature in Columbia University as a contribution to knowledge worthy of publication._
A. H. THORNDIKE,
Executive Officer
PREFACE
The purpose of the following study is not to revive the reputation of a forgotten author or to suggest that Mrs. Haywood may yet "come into her own." For the lover of eighteenth century fashions her numerous pages have indeed a stilted, early Georgian charm, but with the passing of Ramillies wigs and velveteen small-clothes the popularity of her novels vanished once for all. She had her world in her time, but that world and time disappeared with the French Revolution [a]. Now even professed students of the novel shrink from reading many of her seventy odd volumes, nor can the infam