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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.5
EAN: 9780813123592
ISBN: 0813123593
Label: University Press of Kentucky
Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 456
Publication Date: 2005-12-09
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Studio: University Press of Kentucky

The author of over eighty novels, plays, and volumes of poetry, Eliza Haywood is one of the most prolific and high-profile female authors of the eighteenth century. Her last novel, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, is original for its unsentimental realism in its depiction of marriage and courtship among the leisure classes of the mid-eighteenth century. In his new introduction, editor John Richetti examines how Haywood's amusing and engaging prose explores the subtleties of eighteenth-century courtship.

Out of print since the early nineteenth century, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy is now available in an edited and fully annotated modern edition.