CHARACTER OF THE
FRUITLESS ENQUIRY
AND
ANECDOTES OF ITS AUTHOR,
BY THE EDITOR.
THE following pages are selected from a Novel[1]under the same title, and from which I have only made extracts, as some of the stories it contains are inconsistent with the plan of this work, as being either gross in the subjects, or indelicate in the expression.
- ↑ By Mrs. Eliza Haywood, a voluminous novelist, born in 1696. In the early part of her life she wrote a number of loose tales, and dealt a good deal in personal slander. Mrs. Manley's Atalantis gave her a hint, upon which she framed The Court of Carimania, and the new Utopia, with other pieces of the same nature. She attempted dramatic writing, and acting also; but met with little success in either. However, she shewed herself a writer of great ingenuity in the manner of treating her subjects; but her latter works, among which this is one, have made proper atonement for the indelicacy and immorality of her former writings, as she appears to be a strong advocate on the side of Decency and Virtue. The Female Spectator, The History of Betsy Thoughtless, Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, The Invisible Spy, and A Present for a Servant-maid, are among this latter class of her compositions. She died in 1759.
