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Selections from the Female Spectator

by Eliza Haywood

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After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early 18th century. She also edited The Female Spectator, a periodical with a markedly female audience in mind, and this is a selection of her writings from its pages.

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Canonical title: Selections from the Female Spectator

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Genres: Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 824.5 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English essays Queen Anne 1702–45
LCC: PR3506 .H94 .A6 — Language and Literature English English Literature 17th and 18th centuries (1640-1770)
BISAC: LIT LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Published: 1999
Genres: Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 824.5
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