Eliza Haywood’s These last words海伍德的最后一句话.pptVIP

ELIZA HAYWOOD 1693? - 1756 Biography -Born Elizabeth Fowler -Was likely married between 1714-1719 -Had two illegitimate children -Was linked romantically to Richard Savage and William Hatchett Why dont we know more about her life? This is possibly the result of a request on her death bed to “a particular Person, who was well acquainted with all the Particulars of it, not to communicate to any one the least Circumstance relating to her” (Ballaster, Seductive Forms 159)? We do know that Haywood produced over 40 works of fiction, four translations, a biography, multiple plays, a history of the stage, seven periodicals, numerous poems and pamphlets and two collected editions of her works. (Fowler, “A Woman Writing Among Men”, 1.)? Alexander Pope wrote about Haywood in his poem The Dunciad See in the circle next, Eliza placd; Two babes of love close clinging to her waste;Fair as before her works she stands confessd, In flowrs and pearls by bounteous Kirkall dressd. The Goddess then: Who best can send on high “The salient spout, far-streaming to the sky: “His be yon Juno of majestic size, “With cow like udders, and with ox-like eyes. Pope takes the focus off of her writing and into her personal life by proclaiming her two children to be illegitimate. SCANDALS SCANDALS Richard Savage also wrote about Haywood in The Authors of the Town 1725 : “A Cast off Dame, who of intrigues can judge, Writes Scandal in Romance A Printers Drudge! Flushd with Success, for Stage-Renown she pants, And melts, and swells, and pens luxurious Rants.” Women In The 18th Century Eighteenth-Century Women were living in a time of great female suppression that demanded limited, frivolous education for females and discouraged female sexuality. Daniel Defoe’s novel Moll Flanders accurately portrays women’s education as learning accomplishments such as music, reading,