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 intrigu

Author: Eliza Haywood
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 04/01/1999
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.05w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780813109619

About the Author

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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