Haywood argues from the first page that fewer women are undone by love than by vanity. Her heroine Betsy, pretty, clever and careless of appearances, enjoys flirting with a crowd of suitors in London and refuses the worthy Trueworth. A disastrous marriage to the mean-spirited Mr. Munden follows, and Betsy has to grow up fast.
A major eighteenth-century novel by a woman writer, often seen as a forerunner of Fanny Burney and Jane Austen. Download the free EPUB.