Eliza Haywood, The Fortunate Foundlings

Carol Stewart

Eliza Haywood, The Fortunate Foundlings

Edited by Carol Stewart

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Eliza Haywood (1693-1756), English writer

Critical Texts 59

Modern Humanities Research Association

31 May 2018 • 278pp

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The Fortunate Foundlings was one of Eliza Haywood’s more successful novels, though it remains one of her lesser known works. It tells the story of a brother and sister left as babies in the care of a gentleman. Like many another eighteenth-century foundling, the siblings leave their guardian behind and make their own way in the world: Horatio as a soldier and Louisa as a lady’s companion, finding love and adventure in the battlefields and courts of Europe. Haywood uses the Continental setting to explore different customs — especially those that might benefit women — and different political choices.

Also published here for the first time is her anonymous pamphlet of 1750, A Letter from H--- G---g, Esq., ostensibly a letter from Charles Edward Stuart’s aide-de-camp, travelling with him after the prince’s expulsion from France. Seemingly a straightforward expression of Jacobite sympathies, it also encodes support for the Patriot cause of the 1740s and ’50s.

Both works were translated and adapted, having an extended afterlife in the writings of Crébillon fils, Edward Kimber and Robert Louis Stevenson. They add to our expanding sense of the author’s range, influence and political agenda.

Carol Stewart is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia.

Reviews:

‘This volume is a worthwhile read and is highly recommended.’ — unsigned notice, Forum for Modern Language Studies 55.2, April 2019, 245 (full text online)
‘Carol Stewart’s new edition is of exceptional value. The volume is consistently and expertly footnoted. Historical personages are briefly identified, and likely references are offered. More importantly, Stewart’s introduction provides a brief but clear historical summary, a useful contextualization of the text in Haywood’s oeuvre, and a thoughtful analysis of the novel’s key features.’ — Matthew J. Rigilano, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 33.1, 2020, 168-71
‘A key addition to Haywood scholarship, doing much to show her adroit handling of different genres as well as offering a new perspective on an author about whom there is still much to discover.’ — Jennifer Buckley, Modern Language Review 115.4, October 2020, 902-03 (full text online)

Contents:

1-13	Introduction Carol Stewart doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.4	Cite
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14-16	Select Bibliography Carol Stewart doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.5	Cite
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24-31	CHAP. I. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.6	Cite
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32-38	CHAP. II. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.7	Cite
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39-45	CHAP. III. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.8	Cite
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46-54	CHAP. IV. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.9	Cite
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55-65	CHAP. V. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.10	Cite
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66-74	CHAP. VI. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.11	Cite
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75-83	CHAP. VII. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.12	Cite
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84-91	CHAP. VIII. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.13	Cite
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92-100	CHAP. IX. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.14	Cite
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101-109	CHAP. X. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.15	Cite
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110-114	CHAP. XI. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.16	Cite
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115-125	CHAP. XII. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.17	Cite
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126-133	CHAP. XIII. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.18	Cite
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134-142	CHAP. XIV. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.19	Cite
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143-150	CHAP. XV. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.20	Cite
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151-157	CHAP. XVI. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.21	Cite
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158-167	CHAP. XVII Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.22	Cite
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168-177	CHAP. XVIII Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.23	Cite
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178-185	CHAP. XIX Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.24	Cite
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186-194	CHAP. XX Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.25	Cite
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195-203	CHAP. XXI Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.26	Cite
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204-213	CHAP. XXII Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.27	Cite
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214-218	CHAP. XXIII Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.28	Cite
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219-228	CHAP. XXIV Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.29	Cite
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229-233	CHAP. XXV Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.30	Cite
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234-236	CHAP. XXVI Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.31	Cite
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237-267	PART II A Letter from H—G—g, Esq. Eliza Haywood doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.32	Cite
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268-270	Silent Corrections Carol Stewart doi:10.2307/j.ctv1fxkxb.33	Cite
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Stewart, Carol (ed.), Eliza Haywood, The Fortunate Foundlings, Critical Texts, 59 (MHRA, 2018)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Eliza Haywood, The Fortunate Foundlings, ed. by Carol Stewart, Critical Texts, 59 (MHRA, 2018), p. 21.

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