On Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and The Female Spectator, eds. Lynn Wright and Donald Newman. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 2006.

The first sustained scholarly study of Haywood’s Female Spectator, Fair Philosopher challenges previous assumptions with essays by established and new (as of 2006) Haywood scholars. This edited collection argues for more scholarship on the Female Spectator and forwards potential lines of inquiry. Two prominent Haywood scholars, whose standalone works also appear in this bibliography, Kathryn King and Catherine Ingrassia, contributed essays, “Patriot or Opportunist? Eliza Haywood and the Politics of The Female Spectator” and “Eliza Haywood, Periodicals, and the Function of Orality.” The following chapters provided the greatest assistance in sorting through the above-cited primary source-material retrieved on ECCO: “Measuring the Success of Haywood’s Female Spectator (1744-46)” and “The Female Spectator: A Bibliographic Essay” by Patrick Spedding and Donald Newman, and helped me decide which edition to use as the parent text for my critical editions of book 14. I was able to identify which edition the texts available on ECCO, which did not state the edition on the cover, are; that ECCO does not have the fourth edition; that three of the nine copies on ECCO are pirated; that it was in circulation 1744-46 and therefore there is only one version on ECCO that is both the first edition and printed by Haywood’s publisher, Gardner. In response to the 1746 pirated edition published in Dublin, Gardner started reprinting the Female Spectator in the cheaper duodecimo format in 1748 (194). Because “… we know that the work was never revised, by Haywood or anyone else, and … informal sight collation suggests that bona fide later editions were merely reset and, as the century wore on, shorn of long s’s, capitalized nouns, and so forth,” I will use the first edition for my parent-text (52).