Description - Political Biography of Eliza Haywood by Kathryn R King
While under arrest in 1750 on suspicion of producing a seditious pamphlet Eliza Haywood insisted she never wrote any thing in a political way . This study of her life and works, the first full-length biography in almost a century, views Haywood's life through the prism of her shifting political allegiances. Known today for her novels of sexual passion, Haywood wrote much in the political way . She exposed ongoing financial corruptions in her early scandal chronicles. By the mid-1730s she had joined the campaign to topple Walpole, attacking him in the blistering Oriental satire "Eovaai "(1736) and performing on stage in Fielding s final plays at the Haymarket. She sold anti-ministerial propaganda at her own pamphlet-shop at the 'Sign of Fame' in Covent Garden, wrote a Jacobite weekly paper attacking the Duke of Cumberland and promoted the mid-century cult of the Patriot Prince in the deceptively entitled "Epistles to the Ladies "(1749 50)."
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