Premium Content Eliza Haywood: The Rise of the Woman Novelist and Her Response to Feminine Desire Through the Form of the Masquerade
By Amanda Byrd - March 17, 2006
The very form of the sentence does not fit her.
It is a sentence made by men;
It is too loose,
Too heavy,
Too pompous for a woman's use
-Virginia Woolf, in her Collected Essays, 'Modern Fiction.'
Eliza Haywood's novels are important documents not only of women's history, but also of literary, social, and moral tensions of their time. Her stories are…
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