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- Title
The Pious Mrs. Haywood; or, Thoughts on Epistles for the Ladies (1748-1750).
- Authors
KING, KATHRYN R.
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
ENGLISH epistolary fiction; HAYWOOD, Eliza Fowler, ca. 1693-1756; EPISTLES for the Ladies (Book); SELF-actualization (Psychology); BRITISH women authors
- Publication
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 4, p187
- ISSN
1531-0485
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jem.2014.0039