This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's entire career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Tobias Smollett. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing Haywood produced, the ways she treated importa[...]

Miss Betsy is courted by several eligible su itors. Enjoying the adoration, she dallies with their affect ions and postpones her marriage. Her flirting alienates the right man and scares her guardian into marrying her off to a brutish husband. '[...]