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The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Engelsk Paperback
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Engelsk Paperback

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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 Haywood’s life and work, and on her relationship with contemporaries such as Henry Fielding.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
656
ISBN-13:
9781551111476
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1551111470
Udg. Dato:
30 maj 1998
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
142mm
Højde:
218mm
Forlag:
Broadview Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
30 maj 1998
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