The Injur'd Husband and Lasselia
The scheming, sexually predatory anti-heroine of The Injur'd Husband is a memorable villain who defies all expectations of a woman's conduct in marriage. The heroine of Lasselia is initially a model of virtue who bravely resists the advances of a king, only to be driven by her passion and desire into an illicit affair with a married man and ultimately into ruin. Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) was one of the first women in England to earn a living writing fiction. Her early tales of amorous intrigue, sometimes based on real people, were exceedingly popular though controversial. Haywood, along with her contemporary Daniel Defoe, did more than any…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8131-0961-9
- EAN: 9780813109619
- Produktnummer: 1398357
- Verlag: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.2 cm 328 g
- Auflage: 1976
- Gewicht: 328
Über den Autor
Jerry C. Beasley, professor of English at the University of Delaware, is the author of Novels of the 1740s and Tobias Smollett: Novelist.
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