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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824298103321

Autore

Haywood Eliza Fowler <1693?-1756, >

Titolo

Selections from The female spectator / / by Eliza Haywood ; edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772604-6

1-282-38403-1

9786612384035

9786610914449

0-19-534444-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

Women writers in English 1350-1850

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

824/.5

828.508

Soggetti

Women

Women - Great Britain - Conduct of life - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Selected Bibliography; Note on the Text; Acknowledgments; THE FEMALE SPECTATOR; Dedication to Volume I; From Book I; From Book II; From Book III; From Book IV; From Book V; From Book VI; From Book VIII; From Book X; From Book XIII; From Book XIV; From Book XV; From Book XVI; From Book XVII; From Book XIX; From Book XX; From Book XXI; From Book XXIII; From Book XXIV

Sommario/riassunto

After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early 18th century. She also edited The Female Spectator, a periodical with a markedly female audience in mind, and this is a selection of her writings from its pages.