Eliza Haywood
For
those of you middle class women that are looking for entertainment and a break
from everyday life, Eliza Haywood is the author for you. Haywood is the founder
and primary writing force behind The Female Spectator, which is similar
to The Spectator but composed exlusively for a female audience. The
very themes that Haywood addresses in The Female Spectator--social
contact, female community, and opportunity outside the domestic sphere--are
some of the most important issues facing women today.[11]In
a series of essays, Haywood presents "an ideal forum for direct and indirect
discussions of the kind of issue [she] had investigated in her longer fiction:
the problem of female opportunity and limitation. More specifically, Haywood
concern[s] herself with how women might operate effectively within the social
restrictions that [envelop] them." [12]
What does this means for you? Haywood realizes that, although you might like to, most of you will not run off and leave your husband, children, and responsibilities in search of adventure and female friendship. Therefore, through the writings of The Female Spectator, you are provided with information, entertainment, and didactic advice that you can consume in the privacy in your own home. [13] Furthermore, she creates a public dialogue in which women can write, read, and interact with each other. As you will see, some of the essays and letters written to the paper are written by women like you. Therefore, by reading The Female Specator, you can find ways to break free from your domestic life and connect with the growing community of educated women.
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you like to read a sample excerpt from The Female Spectator?
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