HAYWOOD, Eliza (Fowler)

HAYWOOD, Eliza (Fowler)
(?1693-1756)
   UK actress, publisher and most prolific female writer of her time. Much of her work was scandalous, containing thinly veiled characterizations of notable contemporaries. The Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijavea: A Pre-Adamitical History (1736; vt The UnfortunatePrincess 1741) is an allegorical political SATIRE set before the destruction of Earth's second moon and featuring, among many accounts of sorcery, the visitation by mechanical means of an extraterrestrial (this was several years before the appearance of VOLTAIRE's Micromegas (1751). EH also wrote Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (2 vols 1725-6), an anonymously published allegorical UTOPIA built around a series of sexual scandals, and The Invisible Spy (1755) as by "Explorabilis", in which an INVISIBILITY belt is used to eavesdrop onsociety gossip. The anonymous satirical LOST-WORLD novel Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput (1727) was (perhaps wrongly) attributed to her byAlexander Pope in 1729.
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   About the author: The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood (1915) by G.F. Whicker.

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