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Love in Excess is Eliza Haywood's best known novel. It details the amorous escapades of Count D'Elmont, a rake who becomes reformed over the course of the novel. Love in Excess was a huge bestseller in its time, going through multiple reissues in the four years following its initial publication.Love in Excess is a well-crafted novel in which the claims of love and ambition are pursued through multiple storylines until the heroine engineers a melodramatic conclusion. Love in Excess and its reception provide a lively and valuable record of the challenge that female desire posed to social decorum.
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This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing she produced, and the ways she treated important themes and issues.
Reproduction of the original: The Fortunate Foundlings by Eliza Fowler Haywood
"First published 1756 alongside a companion work, "The husband," the pair providing guides as to suitable behaviour in a marriage. Perhaps best known for her novels, Haywood published a wide range of titles, including "The female spectator," a collection of topical work published under several pseudonyms, and translations of popular European romances."--Supplied by dealer, John R. Sanderson