ELIZA HAYWOOD: QUESTIONS IN THE LIFE AND WORKS (HAYWOOD ELIZA, WOMEN WRITERS).

New biographical and textual information significantly alters known accounts of Haywood's life and works, and a series of case studies and analyses demonstrates how this primary research affects critical assessments of Haywood. Specific issues addressed here include the dialogical relationship of Haywood's late works, the products of what has been called a conservative "second career," with the more explicitly sensational early works; the biographical background and critical legacy of Alexander Pope's