Fantomina: Or, Love in a maze
Publication History
From 1725-1732 Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina; Or, Love in a Maze was circulated in the editions of and volumes of Secret histories, novels and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood.
Secret histories, novels and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood.
The second edition/ Volume 2 published in 1725. (London)
Secret histories, novels and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood…
The second edition/Volume 3 in 1725. (London)
Secret histories, novels, and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. ...
The third edition/ Volume 1-Publuished in 1732. (London)
Secret histories, novels, and poems. In four volumes.
The third edition/Volume 3-Published in 1732. (London)
From 1725-1732 Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina; Or, Love in a Maze was circulated in the editions of and volumes of Secret histories, novels and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood.
Secret histories, novels and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood.
The second edition/ Volume 2 published in 1725. (London)
Secret histories, novels and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood…
The second edition/Volume 3 in 1725. (London)
Secret histories, novels, and poems. In four volumes. Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. ...
The third edition/ Volume 1-Publuished in 1732. (London)
Secret histories, novels, and poems. In four volumes.
The third edition/Volume 3-Published in 1732. (London)
Works
Love in Excess; or The Fatal Enquiry (1719-1720)
Idalia; or The Unfortunate Mistress (1723)
The Rash Resolve; or, The Untimely Discovery (1723)
The British Recluse (collected edition 1724)
The Fatal Secret; or, Constancy in Distress (1724)
The Surprise (1724)
The Arragonian Queen: A Secret History (1724)
The Masqueraders; or Fatal Curiosity (1724–25)
Fantomina: Or, Love in a maze (1725)
The Mercenary Lover; or, The Unfortunate Heiresses (1726)
The Distress'd Orphan; or Love in a Madhouse (1726)
The Adventures of Eovaii: A Pre-Adamitical History (1736) was also titled The Unfortunate Princess (1741)
The Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected (1741)
The Fortunate Foundlings (1744)
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751)
The Injur’d Husband
Lasselia; or The Self-Abandon’d
The City Jilt; or, The Alderman Turn’d Beau (1726)
The Force of Nature; or, The Lucky Disappointment (1724)
Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (1725)
Bath Intrigues: in four Letters to a Friend in London (1725)
Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse (1724)
The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Carimania (1726)
Letters from the Palace of Fame (1727)
The Unequal Conflict (1725)
The Fatal Fondness (1725)
The Mercenary Lover; or, the Unfortunate Heiresses (1726)
The Double Marriage; or, The Fatal Release (1726)
The Distressed Orphan; or, Love in a Madhouse (1726)
Cleomelia; or The Generous Mistress (1727)
The Fruitless Enquiry (1727)
The Life of Madam de Villesache (1727)
Philadore and Placentia (1727)
The Perplex’d Dutchess; or Treachery Rewarded (1728)
The Padlock; or No Guard Without Virtue (1728)
Irish Artifice; or, The History of Clarina (1728)
Persecuted Virtue; or, The Cruel Lover (1728)
The Agreeable Caledonian; or, Memoirs of Signiora di Morella (1728)
The Fair Hebrew; or, A True, but Secret History of Two Jewish Ladies (1729)
Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo: A Pre-Adamitical History (1736); alternative title The Unfortunate Princess, or The Ambitious Statesman (2nd edition, 1741)
Life’s Progress through the Passions; or, The Adventures of Natura (1748)
Dalinda; or The Double Marriage (1749)
A Letter from H------ G--------, Esq., One of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber of the Young Chevalier (1750).
The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy (1753)
The Invisible Spy (1754)
The Critical Reception of Eliza Haywood
Eliza Haywood is hailed as a great novelist by many critics because of her ability to cause a stir of emotion with her work. Through the sexuality and questionable actions of her characters, she raises questions about the propriety and morals of both women and men of her time. Her female protagonists behaved in manners that were deemed scandalous during the period, but have been used to help mold and shape the modern day heroine.
Listed below are some critical reviews of Haywood and her works.
TITLE: The lady's philosopher's stone; or, the caprices of love and destiny: an historical novel. Written in French by M. L'Abbé de Castera; and now translated into English.
AUTHOR: Du Perron de Castera, M. (Louis-Adrien)
PUBLICATION DATE: 1725
THESIS: "She attempted dramatic writing, and acting also but met with little success. However she shewed herself a writer of great ingenuity..."
TITLE: The Female Dunciad
AUTHOR: Edmund Curll
PUBLICATION DATE: 1728
THESIS: "I am likewise to inform my Female Criticis that they stand indebted to the entertaining Pen of Mrs. Eliza Haywood for the following History of Clarina."
TITLE: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. Volume II.
AUTHOR: Alexander Pope
PUBLICATION DATE: 1735
THESIS: "This woman was authoress of those most scandalous books.... called the court of carimania and new utopia."
TITLE: A collection of novels, selected and revised by Mrs. Griffith
AUTHOR: Unknown
PUBLICATION DATE: 1777
THESIS: "Her latter works...have made proper atonement for the indelicacy and immorality of her former writings as she appears to be a strong advocate on the side of Decency and Virtue."
TITLE: Reworking Male Models: Aphra Behn's "Fair Vow-Breaker," Eliza Haywood's "Fantomina," and Charlotte Lennox's "Female Quixote"
AUTHOR: Catherine A. Craft
PUBLICATION DATE: 1991
THESIS: "In this essay which follows I analyse three early women texts..... applying a metholdology which examines the possible encoding of female discourse in an otherwise conventional work. "
TITLE: Plotting Materialism: W. Charleton's "The Ephesian Matron", E. Haywood's "Fantomina", and Feminine Consistency
AUTHOR: Helen Thompson
PUBLICATION DATE: 2002
THESIS: "In this essay I draw connections between the seventeeth century natural philosopher Walter Charletons Materialism and the Romance writer Eliza Haywood's novella Fantomina or Love in a maze."
TITLE: Eliza Haywood's Defense of London's Body Politic
AUTHOR: Melissa Mowry
PUBLICATION DATE: 2003
THESIS: "The narrative structures of both fictions set up the City's democratic body politic to expose the Whig oligarchs' hypocrisy as both Fantomina and Glicera suggest that the democratic body could stand as a force for moral redemption."
TITLE: Printed in a Book: Negotiating Print and Manuscript Cultures in "Fantomina" and "Clarissa"
AUTHOR: Marta Kvande
PUBLICATION DATE: 2013
THESIS: Haywood was involved in the book trades and was an accomplished practitioner of the novel-in-letters. Both wrote novels that participated in the ongoing cultural negotiation between print and manuscript cultures. Haywood's Fantomina capitalizes on the distance created by print to creates authority.
TITLE: Imaginative Pleasures: Fantomina, Ideology and Aesthetics.
AUTHOR: Patricia Comitini
PUBLICATION DATE: 2014
THESIS: Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina experiments with Addison’s emerging notions of aesthetics and the pleasures of the imagination as a self consciously imagined form of fiction.
Listed below are some critical reviews of Haywood and her works.
TITLE: The lady's philosopher's stone; or, the caprices of love and destiny: an historical novel. Written in French by M. L'Abbé de Castera; and now translated into English.
AUTHOR: Du Perron de Castera, M. (Louis-Adrien)
PUBLICATION DATE: 1725
THESIS: "She attempted dramatic writing, and acting also but met with little success. However she shewed herself a writer of great ingenuity..."
TITLE: The Female Dunciad
AUTHOR: Edmund Curll
PUBLICATION DATE: 1728
THESIS: "I am likewise to inform my Female Criticis that they stand indebted to the entertaining Pen of Mrs. Eliza Haywood for the following History of Clarina."
TITLE: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. Volume II.
AUTHOR: Alexander Pope
PUBLICATION DATE: 1735
THESIS: "This woman was authoress of those most scandalous books.... called the court of carimania and new utopia."
TITLE: A collection of novels, selected and revised by Mrs. Griffith
AUTHOR: Unknown
PUBLICATION DATE: 1777
THESIS: "Her latter works...have made proper atonement for the indelicacy and immorality of her former writings as she appears to be a strong advocate on the side of Decency and Virtue."
TITLE: Reworking Male Models: Aphra Behn's "Fair Vow-Breaker," Eliza Haywood's "Fantomina," and Charlotte Lennox's "Female Quixote"
AUTHOR: Catherine A. Craft
PUBLICATION DATE: 1991
THESIS: "In this essay which follows I analyse three early women texts..... applying a metholdology which examines the possible encoding of female discourse in an otherwise conventional work. "
TITLE: Plotting Materialism: W. Charleton's "The Ephesian Matron", E. Haywood's "Fantomina", and Feminine Consistency
AUTHOR: Helen Thompson
PUBLICATION DATE: 2002
THESIS: "In this essay I draw connections between the seventeeth century natural philosopher Walter Charletons Materialism and the Romance writer Eliza Haywood's novella Fantomina or Love in a maze."
TITLE: Eliza Haywood's Defense of London's Body Politic
AUTHOR: Melissa Mowry
PUBLICATION DATE: 2003
THESIS: "The narrative structures of both fictions set up the City's democratic body politic to expose the Whig oligarchs' hypocrisy as both Fantomina and Glicera suggest that the democratic body could stand as a force for moral redemption."
TITLE: Printed in a Book: Negotiating Print and Manuscript Cultures in "Fantomina" and "Clarissa"
AUTHOR: Marta Kvande
PUBLICATION DATE: 2013
THESIS: Haywood was involved in the book trades and was an accomplished practitioner of the novel-in-letters. Both wrote novels that participated in the ongoing cultural negotiation between print and manuscript cultures. Haywood's Fantomina capitalizes on the distance created by print to creates authority.
TITLE: Imaginative Pleasures: Fantomina, Ideology and Aesthetics.
AUTHOR: Patricia Comitini
PUBLICATION DATE: 2014
THESIS: Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina experiments with Addison’s emerging notions of aesthetics and the pleasures of the imagination as a self consciously imagined form of fiction.
Works Cited
A Collection of Novels, Selected and Revised by Mrs. Griffith. .. London: Printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 40, in Fleet-Street: and the Other Proprietors, 1777. Print.
Comitini, Patricia. "Imaginative Pleasures: Fantomina, Ideology, and Aesthetics." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 43.1 (2014): 69-87. Project MUSE. Web. 9 Dec. 2014. <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.
Craft, Catherine A. "Reworking Male Models: Aphra Behn's "Fair Vow-Breaker," Eliza Haywood's "Fantomina," and Charlotte Lennox's "Female Quixote"" The Modern Language Review: 821. Print.
De Castera, Du Perron. The Lady's Philosopher's Stone Or, the Caprices of Love and Destiny: An Historical Novel. Written in French by M. L'Abbe De Castera; and Now Translated into English. London: Printed for D. Browne, Junr.; and S. Chapman, 1725. Print.
Kvande, Marta. "Printed in a Book: Negotiating Print and Manuscript Cultures in Fantomina and Clarissa." Eighteenth-Century Studies: 239-57. Print.
Mowry, Melissa. "Eliza Haywood's Defense of London's Body Politic." SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900: 645-65. Print.
Pope, Alexander. The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. Volume II. London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1735. Print.
The Female Dunciad: Containing I. A Faithful Account of the Intrigues, Gallantries and Amours of Alexander Pope, of Twickenham, Esq;
Written By Himself. II. A Satire Upon the Court-Lords and Ladies. Written Also By Him in the Year 1717. III. A Single Instance of His Repentance. IV. The New, Surprizing Metamorphosis: Or, Mr. Pope Turn'd Into a Stinging-Nettle; Being a Familiar Epistle From a Gentleman in Town to a Lady in the Country. Occasion'd By Reading the Dunciad. V. Irish Artifice; Or, The History of Clarina. A Novel. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. VI. Female Worthies. By the Bishop of Peterborough. The Whole Being a Continuation of the Twickenham Hotch-Potch. London: London : printed for T. Read, in White-Fryers; and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728], 1728.
Thompson, Helen. "Plotting Materialism: W. Charleton's The Ephesian Matron, E. Haywood's Fantomina, And Feminine Consistency." Eighteenth-Century Studies: 195-214. Print.
A Collection of Novels, Selected and Revised by Mrs. Griffith. .. London: Printed for G. Kearsly, at No. 40, in Fleet-Street: and the Other Proprietors, 1777. Print.
Comitini, Patricia. "Imaginative Pleasures: Fantomina, Ideology, and Aesthetics." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 43.1 (2014): 69-87. Project MUSE. Web. 9 Dec. 2014. <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.
Craft, Catherine A. "Reworking Male Models: Aphra Behn's "Fair Vow-Breaker," Eliza Haywood's "Fantomina," and Charlotte Lennox's "Female Quixote"" The Modern Language Review: 821. Print.
De Castera, Du Perron. The Lady's Philosopher's Stone Or, the Caprices of Love and Destiny: An Historical Novel. Written in French by M. L'Abbe De Castera; and Now Translated into English. London: Printed for D. Browne, Junr.; and S. Chapman, 1725. Print.
Kvande, Marta. "Printed in a Book: Negotiating Print and Manuscript Cultures in Fantomina and Clarissa." Eighteenth-Century Studies: 239-57. Print.
Mowry, Melissa. "Eliza Haywood's Defense of London's Body Politic." SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900: 645-65. Print.
Pope, Alexander. The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope. Volume II. London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1735. Print.
The Female Dunciad: Containing I. A Faithful Account of the Intrigues, Gallantries and Amours of Alexander Pope, of Twickenham, Esq;
Written By Himself. II. A Satire Upon the Court-Lords and Ladies. Written Also By Him in the Year 1717. III. A Single Instance of His Repentance. IV. The New, Surprizing Metamorphosis: Or, Mr. Pope Turn'd Into a Stinging-Nettle; Being a Familiar Epistle From a Gentleman in Town to a Lady in the Country. Occasion'd By Reading the Dunciad. V. Irish Artifice; Or, The History of Clarina. A Novel. By Mrs. Eliza Haywood. VI. Female Worthies. By the Bishop of Peterborough. The Whole Being a Continuation of the Twickenham Hotch-Potch. London: London : printed for T. Read, in White-Fryers; and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728], 1728.
Thompson, Helen. "Plotting Materialism: W. Charleton's The Ephesian Matron, E. Haywood's Fantomina, And Feminine Consistency." Eighteenth-Century Studies: 195-214. Print.