" The scheming, sexually predatory anti-heroine of The Injur'd Husband
is a memorable villain who defies all expectations of a woman's conduct
in marriage. The heroine of Lasselia is initially a model of virtue who
bravely resists the advances of a king, only to be driven by her passion
and desire into an illicit affair with a married man and ultimately into
ruin. Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) was one of the first women in England
to earn a living writing fiction. Her early tales of amorous intrigu