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Selections from The Female Spectator (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)

by Eliza Haywood (Author), Patricia Meyer Spacks (Editor)
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After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important English female novelist of the early eighteenth century. She also edited several serial newspapers, the most important of which, the Female Spectator, was the first modern periodical written by a woman and addressed to a female audience. This fully annotated collection of articles selected from the Female Spectator includes romantic and satiric fiction, moral essays, and social commentary, covering the broad range of concerns shared by eighteenth-century middle-class women. Perhaps most compelling to a twentieth-century audience is the evidence of what we might be tempted to call feminist awareness.

By no means revolutionary in her attitudes, Haywood nonetheless perceives the inequities of her periods social conditions for women. She offers pragmatic advice, such as how to avoid disastrous marriages, how to deal with wandering husbands, and what kind of education women should seek. The essays also report on a broad range of social actualities, from the craze for tea drinking and the dangers of gossip to the problem of compulsive gambling. They allude to such larger matters as politics, war, and diplomacy, and promote the importance of science and the urgency of developing informed relations with nature.
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  1. ISBN-10
    019510921X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0195109214
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  4. Publication date
    January 28, 1999
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    9.3 x 1.05 x 6.38 inches
  7. Print length
    336 pages
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Patricia Meyer Spacks is at University of Virginia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (January 28, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019510921X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195109214
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.52 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.3 x 1.05 x 6.38 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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Meggy
5.0 out of 5 stars Review of The Female Spectator
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2001
This is not the entire Female Spectator (which would be very long indeed, and much more pricey). Instead, it is an affordable, carefully chosen selection from Eliza Haywood's _Female Spectator_ (a magazine-like publication that ran for several years). The introduction is top-notch. I own this book and refer to it often. This is a great book to read a little at a time. It gives wonderful insight into issues of 18th-century life for women (marriage, manners, and morals). I highly recommend it.
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Alessandra
4.0 out of 5 stars molto buono
Reviewed in Italy on January 8, 2014
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Articolo soddisfacente e corrispondente a quanto richiesto. Il mittente ha rispettato le condizioni esplicitate al momento dell'acquisto dell'oggetto e l'oggetto non presentava difetti
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