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63. The Unequal Conflict; or, Nature Triumphant: A Novel. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. For J. Walthoe, and J. Crokatt. 1725. 8vo.
For a sequel to The Unequal Conflict, see Fatal Fondness.
B.M. (recently acquired from the Huth Sale, Part III).
Yale. Daily Post, 10 Mar. 1725.
[Another edition.] The Second Edition. For J. Walthoe. 1726.
Daily Journal, 17 Feb. 1726.
THE UNFORTUNATE PRINCESS, see Adventures of Eovaai.
64. The Virtuous Villager, or Virgin's Victory: Being The Memoirs of a very Great Lady at the Court of France. Written by Herself. In which the Artifices of designing Men are fully detected and exposed; and the Calamities they bring on credulous believing Woman, are particularly related. Translated from the Original, by the Author of La Belle a.s.semblee. In Two Volumes. For F. Cogan. 1742. 12mo. 2 vols.
From the French of Charles de Fieux, Chevalier de Mouhy. The Dedication to Mrs. Crawley is signed Eliza Haywood.
B.M. (12612. dd. 3).
65. The Wife. By Mira, One of the Authors of the Female Spectator, and Epistles for Ladies. For T. Gardner. 1756. 12mo.
B.M. (836. c. 5). Harvard. Gentleman's Magazine, Dec. 1755.
[Another edition?] For T. Gardner. 1756.
B.M. (8416. de. 1).
[Another edition.] For T. Gardner. 1762. 12mo.
Arthur Header Catalogue.
66. A Wife To be Lett: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, By his Majesty's Servants. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood.
For D. Browne junr, and S. Chapman. 1724. 8vo.
Included in Mrs. Haywood's Works, 1724.
B.M. (12613. e. 26/3). Boston Public Library (Barton Collection).
[Another edition.] The Second Edition. For D. Browne; and Sold by J.
Osborn. 1729. 12mo.
New York Public Library.
[Another edition.] For W. Feales; And Sold by J. Osborn. 1735. 12mo.
B.M. (11775. b. 44). Yale.
[An abridgment.] The Comedy of a Wife to be Lett, or, the Miser Cured, compressed into Two Acts, by Ann Minton. For A. Seale; Ann Minton; and all booksellers. 1802. 8vo.
B.M. (11779. b. 84).
67. The Young Lady. No. 1, 2, 3. By Euphrosine. For T. Gardner. 2d.
each.
Euphrosine, like Mira, was the name of one of the Female Spectator Club.
This was probably Mrs. Haywood's last piece of writing.
Gentleman's Magazine, Jan. 1756.
III. WORKS ATTRIBUTED TO MRS. HAYWOOD
68. The History of Cornelia. For A. Millar. 1750. 12mo.
Arthur Header Catalogue.
69. Matrimony, a Novel, containing a series of Interesting Adventures.
1755. 8vo. 2 vols.
A re-issue of The Marriage Act (1754) by John Shebbeare (D.N.B.).
Arthur Header Catalogue.
70. Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput. Written by Captain Gulliver.
Containing an Account of the Intrigues, and some other particular Transactions of that Nation, omitted in the two Volumes of his Travels.
Published by Lucas Bennet.... For J. Roberts. 1727. 8vo.
Attributed to Mrs. Haywood by Pope.
B.M. (12510. aaa. 5). Daily Journal, 11 Jan. 1727. A second edition was advertised for Roberts on 6 Feb. 1727 (Daily Post).
71. The Pleasant and Delightful History of Gillian of Croydon: Containing, Her Birth and Parentage: Her first Amour, with the sudden Death of her Sweetheart: Her leaving her Father's House In Disguise, and becoming Deputy to a Country Midwife; with a very odd and humoursome Adventure before a Justice of the Peace, for screening a Child under her Hoop-petticoat: Her discovery of a Love-Intrigue between her Mistress's Daughter, and a perjur'd, false-hearted Young-man, which she relates in the tragical History of William and Margaret: Her Account of a Country Wedding in Kent; with several merry Pa.s.sages which attended it.
Ill.u.s.trated with suitable Cuts.
The Whole done much after the same Method as those celebrated Novels, by MRS. ELIZA HAYWOOD. For A. Bettesworth. 1727. 12mo.
A chap-book, not by Mrs. Haywood.
B.M. (12410. a. 28).
IV. WORKS PUBLISHED BY MRS. HAYWOOD
At the end of the first volume of The Virtuous Villager, 1742, occurs the following advertis.e.m.e.nt:
New Books, sold by Eliza Haywood, Publisher, at the Sign of Fame in Covent-Garden.
I. The Busy-Body; or Successful Spy; being the entertaining History of Mons. Bigand.... The whole containing great Variety of Adventures, equally instructive and diverting.
II. Anti-Pamela, or Feign'd Innocence detected, in a Series of Syrena's Adventures: A Narrative which has really its Foundation in Truth and Nature.... Publish'd as a necessary Caution to all young Gentlemen. The Second Edition.
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST
THE WRITINGS OF MRS. HAYWOOD WITH SOME CONTEMPORARY WORKS [Note: Works by other writers are indicated by italics; doubtful attributions by (?). Works never separately issued are enclosed in parentheses. Translations are marked Tr.]
1719 Apr. 25 _Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Pt. I._ Love in Excess, Pts. I, II.
_Mrs. Manley: The Power of Love, in Seven Novels (d.
1720)._ 1720 Feb. 25 Love in Excess, Pt. III.
Apr. 30 _Defoe: Duncan Campbell._ Dec. 26 Tr. Letters from a Lady of Quality to a Chevalier (d.
1721).
1721 Mar. 4 The Fair Captive (acted).
1722 Jan. 27 _Defoe: Moll Flanders._ Apr. 16 The British Recluse.
Dec. 24 The Injur'd Husband (d. 1723).
1723 June 27 Idalia: or, the Unfortunate Mistress.
Aug. 12 Works, Vols. I, II, III.
Aug. 12 A Wife to be Lett (acted). Published Aug.20.
Nov. 1 La.s.selia.
Dec. 16 The Rash Resolve (d. 1724).
1724 Jan. 31 Works, Vol. IV.
