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The Injur'd Husband and Lasselia (Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women)
The Injur'd Husband and Lasselia - Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women Author:Eliza Haywood 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 but controversial. She was denounced by Pope and Swift for contributing to a cultural degeneracy. The scheming, sexually predatory antiheroine of The I... more »njured 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. Originally published in April and October of 1723, these two brief but fast-paced, provocative, and passionate narratives strikingly represent Haywood?s extraordinary contribution to the development of the novel.« less