Eliza Haywood — The Female Spectator and Betsy Thoughtless with Kelly J. Plante

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Details of Eliza Haywood’s life may be murky today, but in the early 18th century, she was a literary force—writing plays and bestselling novels, editing periodicals, and ruffling the feathers of male contemporaries like Alexander Pope. Academic Kelly J. Plante joins us this week to discuss Haywood’s anonymous wartime writing for The Female Spectator, the first periodical written by and for women, as well as her 1751 novel, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless.
Mentioned in this episode:
Kelly J. Plante’s recent scholarship (journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/731334) on Eliza Haywood in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Eliza Haywood:
Love in Excess (broadviewpress.com/product/love-in-excess-seco…)
Fantomina (broadviewpress.com/product/fantomina-and-other…)
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (broadviewpress.com/product/the-history-of-miss…)
The Female Spectator: Book 14, Letter 1 (s.wayne.edu/warriorwomen/haywood-edition)
The Parrot (drive.google.com/file/d/1xhfRCbMKvgqpK1fnQi9OG…)
Epistles for the Ladies (amazon.com/Epistles-ladies-Eliza-Fowler-Haywoo…)
Samuel Richardson:
Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded (amazon.com/Pamela-Virtue-Rewarded-Penguin-Clas…)
Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady (barnesandnoble.com/w/clarissa-or-the-history-o…)
Daniel Defoe:
Robinson Crusoe (broadviewpress.com/product/robinson-crusoe/#ta…)
Alexander Pope:
The Dunciad (americanliterature.com/author/alexander-pope/p…)
Henry Fielding:
The History of Tom Jones (amazon.com/History-Jones-Foundling-Penguin-Cla…)

Frances Burney (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney)
Jane Austen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen)
The Sound of Music’s “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” (youtube.com/watch?v=hwK_WOXjfc0)
“The Things We Do For Love” (youtube.com/watch?v=P0rf3_viTxk) by 10cc
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 49 (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/49-aphra-behn-the-…) on Aphra Behn
A Political Biography of Eliza Haywood (amazon.com/Political-Biography-Haywood-Eightee…) by Kathryn R. King
The Jacobite Uprising (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745)
Bonnie Prince Charlie (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart)
Christian Davies (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Davies) (Mother Ross)
Joan of Arc (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Mulan
John Locke’s tabula rasa (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa)
“Eliza Haywood’s Periodicals in Wartim (academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/…)
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