The Pious Mrs. Haywood; or, Thoughts on Epistles for the Ladies (1748-1750).
The expressive flexibility of the loose epistolary format adopted by Eliza Haywood in her partly periodical Epistles for the Ladies (1748-50) allowed her to meditate on issues of " futurity" brought home by her own brush with death while giving opportunities to rethink and reframe earlier writings....
| Published in: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 187 - 209 |
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Fall2014
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| Summary: | The expressive flexibility of the loose epistolary format adopted by Eliza Haywood in her partly periodical Epistles for the Ladies (1748-50) allowed her to meditate on issues of " futurity" brought home by her own brush with death while giving opportunities to rethink and reframe earlier writings. A retrospective view offers scholars a useful approach to an issue beginning to emerge as an important theme in Haywood studies: her late-career attempt to shape her posthumous reputation. The heavy emphasis on religious renewal and female self-improvement suggests that Haywood sought to align herself with the bluestockings and their educational program at mid-century. |
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