Eliza Haywood and Empire: Exposing Empire in the Female Spectator
In my presentation on Dr. Catherine Ingrassia's Eliza Haywood and Empire panel today at 4:50 EST, I will be discussing my research using the digital...
Privacy, Letters, and Constructing a (Fictional) Female Self in the History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Within the first 70 pages of Eliza Haywood’s 1751 novel The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, vol. 2 (pp. 181-251), appear 13 letters: one to Mr. Trueworth...
Criticism on Haywood’s Female Spectator: An Overview
Haywood criticism saw a boon in the late twentieth century after feminists unearthed her. Only since about 2010, though, has her Female Spectator garnered the...
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....
On Girten, Kristin. “Unsexed Souls: Natural Philosophy as Transformation in Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectator Author(s).” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, 2009, pp. 55-74.
Girten explores Female Spectator issues in which Haywood recommends the practice of natural philosophy for women, purportedly inspired by letters from a Female Spectator reader...