Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Spying on Eliza Haywood / Aleksondra Hultquist and Chris Mounsey -- Eliza Haywood and the deluded heroine plot / Rachel Carnell -- "The shame would be wholly hers" : negotiating gendered shame and desire in Eliza Haywood's Love in excess and The masqueraders / Kristin M. Distel -- "The air of clock-work" : the amatory machine of masculinity in Eliza Haywood's fiction / Mary Beth Harris -- Eliza Haywood and captivity / Catherine Ingrassia -- "I will also give a Copy" : Eliza Haywood and the developing authority of print / Marta Kvande -- Eliza Haywood : a life in the theatre / Jean Marsden -- Eliza Haywood, Alexander Pope and George of Hanover : satire and the telephoto lens / Chris Mounsey -- Eliza Haywood, Francis Hutcheson, and the stoic heritage : calming the vehement passions in the female spectator / Chance David Pahl -- Translation and empire in Haywood's La belle assembl�ee / Annie Persons -- "I have such a piece of news for you" : serving gossip at Haywood's The tea-table / Bethany E. Qualls -- Having it both ways : bigamy and the marriage act in Eliza Haywood's The life of madam de Villesache / Shea Stuart -- Haywood in Holland : translating the passions in the French and Dutch translation of Idalia; or the unfortunate mistress / Fauve Vandenberghe.

"Eliza Haywood's writing career spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals, periodicals, propaganda, satire, and translations. This book demonstrates how she contributed to making women's writing a locus of debate to be taken seriously by contemporary readers, and by current scholars of the eighteenth century"--

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