Three Novellas by Earla A. Wilputte, Eliza Haywood - 9780870134289

Three NovellasAuthor(s): Earla A. Wilputte, Eliza Haywood\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Michigan State University Press, United States\nImprint: Michigan State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780870134289, 978-0870134289\nSynopsis\nThe three novellas presented hereThe Ditress'd Orphan, The City Jilt, and The Double Marriagewere published separately in 1726, but were originally intended for a single volume. Haywood was a dangerous entity in the eighteenth century: a writing woman, writing for women. Like many female authors before her, Haywood was labeled and condemned by men as unfeminine, licentious, immodest and usurping. She dared to wield that masculine instrument, the pen, and speak her mind in public like a man.