Fantomina and Other Works by Eliza Haywood Paperback Book 9781551115245

This collection of early works by Eliza Haywood includes the wellknown novella Fantomina 1725 along with three other short highly engaging Haywood works The TeaTable 1725 Reflections on the Various Effects of Love 1726 and LoveLetters on All Occasions 1730 In these writings Haywood arouses the vicarious experience of erotic love while exploring the ethical and social issues evoked by sexual passionThis Broadview edition includes an introduction that focuses on Haywoods life and career and on the status of prose fiction in the early eighteenth century Also included are appendices of contextual materials from the period comprising writings by Haywood on female conduct eighteenthcentury pornography from Venus in the Cloister and a source text Nahum Tates A Present for the Ladies