This work did some political service in the anti-Walpole campaign. Jerry C. Beasley
has observed that its energetic severity . . . no doubt helped the Opposition in its campaign against the Prime Minister.
qtd. in
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
348
Literary responses
Charlotte McCarthy
Jerry C. Beasley
is fairly scathing about this book in his survey of the decade's fiction. Framing Samuel Richardson
's Pamela as the literary prototype, Beasley describes CMC
's novel as a comparatively plodding tale...
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Texts
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii.
Beasley, Jerry C. Novels of the 1740s. University of Georgia Press, 1982.
Sheridan, Frances. The Plays of Frances Sheridan. Editors Hogan, Robert and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984.