Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

<p>Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the Age of the Enlightenment. Her career, from <i>Love in Excess</i> (1719) to her last completed project <i>The Invisible Spy</i> (1755) spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda, satire, and translations. Haywood’s importance in the development of the novel is now well-known. </p><p>A Spy on Eliza Haywood links this with her work in the other genres in which she published at least one volume a year throughout her life, demonstrating how she contributed substantially to making women’s writing a locus of debate that had to be taken seriously by contemporary readers, as well as now by current scholars of political, moral, and social enquiries into the eighteenth century. </p><p>Haywood’s work is essential to the study of eighteenth-century literature and this collection of essays continues the growing scholarship on this most important of women writers.</p>