IV Works Published by Mrs. Haywood
At the end of the first volume of The Virtuous Villager, 1742, occurs the following advertisement:
New Books, sold by Eliza Haywood, Publisher, at the Sign of Fame in Covent-Garden.
I. The Busy-Body; or Successful Spy; being the entertaining History of Mons. Bigand…. The whole containing great Variety of Adventures, equally instructive and diverting.
II. Anti-Pamela, or Feign’d Innocence detected, in a Series of Syrena’s Adventures: A Narrative which has really its Foundation in Truth and Nature…. Publish’d as a necessary Caution to all young Gentlemen. The Second Edition.
Chronological List
THE WRITINGS OF MRS. HAYWOOD WITH SOME CONTEMPORARY WORKS1
1719 Apr. 25 Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Pt. I.
Love in Excess, Pts. I, II.
Mrs. Manley: The Power of Love, in Seven Novels (d.
1720).
1720 Feb. 25 Love in Excess, Pt. III.
Apr. 30 Defoe: Duncan Campbell.
Dec. 26 Tr. Letters from a Lady of Quality to a Chevalier (d.
1721).
1721 Mar. 4 The Fair Captive (acted).
1722 Jan. 27 Defoe: Moll Flanders.
Apr. 16 The British Recluse.
Dec. 24 The Injur’d Husband (d. 1723).
1723 June 27 Idalia: or, the Unfortunate Mistress.
Aug. 12 Works, Vols. I, II, III.
Aug. 12 A Wife to be Lett (acted). Published Aug.20.
Nov. 1 Lasselia.
Dec. 16 The Rash Resolve (d. 1724).
1724 Jan. 31 Works, Vol. IV.
(Poems on Several Occasions.)
Mar. 14 Defoe: The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana).
Mar. 19 A Spy upon the Conjurer.
Apr. 10 The Masqueraders, Pt. I.
May 16 The Fatal Secret.
July 23 The Surprise.
Aug. 11 The Arragonian Queen.
Aug. 26 Tr. La Belle Assemblée, Pt. I.
Sept. 8 Memoirs of a Certain Island, Vol. I (d. 1725).
Oct. 16 Bath-Intrigues (d. 1725).
Oct. 26 Tr. La Belle Assemblée, Pt. II.
Dec. 9 Tr. La Belle Assemblée, Pt. III.
Dec. 23 Secret Histories, Novels and Poems, 4 vols. (d. 1725).
(Fantomina.)
(The Force of Nature.)
Dec. 23 Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse, Pt. I. (d. 1725).
1725 Jan. 21 The Masqueraders, Pt. II.
Jan. 22 Tr. The Lady’s Philosopher’s Stone.
Mar. 10 The Unequal Conflict.
May 7 The Tea-Table, Pt. I.
May 10 The Dumb Projector.
May 19 Fatal Fondness.
July 2 Mary Stuart.
Nov. 3 Memoirs of a Certain Island, Vol. II (d. 1726).
1726 The Distressed Orphan.
Defoe: The Friendly Daemon.
Feb. 10 The Mercenary Lover.
Mar. 25 The Tea-Table, Pt. II.
Apr. 13 Reflections on the Various Effects of Love.
June 24 The City Jilt.
July 27 Tr. La Belle Assemblée, Vol. II.
Aug. 5 The Double Marriage.
Sept.24 The Court of Carimania (d. 1727).
Sept.30 Letters from the Palace of Fame (d. 1727).
Oct. Swift: Travels of Lemuel Gulliver.
Dec. 5 Cleomelia (d. 1727).
1727 Jan. 9 The Court of Lilliput (?).
Feb. 24 The Fruitless Enquiry.
Apr. 26 The Life of Madam de Villesache.
June 26 Tr. Love in its Variety.
July 24 Philidore and Plaeentia, Pt. I.
Oct. 2 The Perplex’d Dutchess (d. 1728).
Nov. 2 Secret Histories and Novels printed since the publication
of her Works, 2 vols.
1728 (The Padlock.)
May 28 Pope: The Dunciad.
June 21 The Agreeable Caledonian, Pt. I.
Aug. (Irish Artifice) in The Female Dunciad.
Aug. 17 Tr. The Disguis’d Prince, Pt. I.
Nov. 23 Persecuted Virtue.
1729 Select Collection of Novels and Histories, 6 vols. (?).
Jan. 10 The Agreeable Caledonian, Pt. II.
Jan. 29 The Fair Hebrew.
Mar. 4 Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburgh (acted).
May 14 Tr. The Disguis’d Prince, Pt. II.
1730 Jan. 14 Love-Letters on all Occasions.
1732 Secret Memoirs of the Late Mr. Duncan Campbel (?).
1733 May 31 The Opera of Operas (acted). Published in June.
1734 Tr. L’Entretien des Beaux Esprits, 2 vols.
1736 July Adventures of Eovaai.
1740 Nov. The Unfortunate Princess (d. 1741).
Nov. Richardson: Pamela, Vols. I, II.
1741 June Anti-Pamela (?) Published by Mrs. Haywood.
Nov. Tr. The Busy-Body; or Successful Spy, 2 vols.(?) Published
by Mrs. Haywood.
1742 Tr. The Virtuous Villager, 2 vols.
Feb. Fielding: Adventures of Joseph Andrews, 2 vols.
1743 June A Present for a Servant-Maid.
1744 Feb. The Fortunate Foundlings.
May Sarah Fielding: David Simple.
1744 Apr.) The Female Spectator (published monthly) 4 vols.
1746 May)
1746 Aug. 2)The Parrot (published weekly).
Oct. 4)
1747 Nov. Richardson: Clarissa, Vols. I, II.
1748 Jan. Smollett: Adventures of Roderick Random, 2 vols.
Apr. Richardson: Clarissa, Vols. Ill, IV.
Apr. Life’s Progress through the Passions.
Dec. Richardson: Clarissa, complete.
1749 Feb. Fielding: History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 6 vols.
June Dalinda.
Nov. Epistles for the Ladies, 2 vols. (d. 1749-50).
1750 Jan. A Letter from H—- Q—- g, Esq.
1750 Mar. Johnson: The Rambler.
1752 Mar.
1750 Apr. The History of Cornelia (?).
Dec. Mrs. Lennox: The Life of Harriot Stuart, 2 vols.
1751 Feb. Smollett: Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, 4 vols.
Oct. The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, 4 vols.
Dec. Fielding: Amelia, 4 vols.
1752 Mar. Mrs. Lennox: The Female Quixote, 2 vols.
Dec. The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, 3
vols. (d. 1753).
1753 Nov. Richardson: Sir Charles Grandison, Vols. I, II,
III, IV.
Dec. Richardson: Sir Charles Grandison, Vols. V, VI.
1754 Nov. The Invisible Spy, 4 vols. (d. 1755).
1755 Dee. The Wife (d. 1756).
1756 The Husband.
Jan. The Young Lady, Nos. I, 2, 3, (?).
Feb. 25 Mrs. Haywood died.
1768 May Clementina.
1772 Apr. A New Present for a Servant Maid (d. 1771).
1778 Mar. The History of Leonora Meadowson, 2 vols.
Notes
1 Works by other writers are indicated by italics; doubtful attributions by (?). Works never separately issued are enclosed in parentheses. Translations are marked Tr.