[307] "Whereas Elizabeth Haywood, Wife of the Reverend Mr. Valentine Haywood, eloped from him her Husband on Saturday the 26th. of November last past, and went away without his Knowledge and Consent: This is to give Notice to all persons in general, That if any one shall trust her either with Money or Goods, or if she shall contract Debts of any kind whatsoever, the said Mr. Haywood will not pay the same." (Post Boy, January 7, 1721. Quoted by Mr. Whicher, p. 3.)
[308] In 1723, at Drury Lane, she played "Mrs. Graspall" in her own comedy, A Wife to be Lett. In 1715, six years before she left her husband, she had appeared as "Chloe" in Shadwell's adaptation of Timon of Athens.
[309] A complete bibliography of Mrs. Haywood's works is given by Mr. Whicher in his Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood, pp. 126-204.
[310] Gosse, Edmund: Gossip in a Library; "What Ann Lang Read," pp. 161-69.
[311] Whicher: The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood, p. 13.
[312] See section on ["Novel-Reading Girl."]
[313] Whicher, G. F.: The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood, chap. V, "The Heroine of The Dunciad."
[314] Whicher, G. P.: The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood, p. 22.
It may be noticed that late in the century several women were successful printers and publishers. "Mrs. Munelly was a printer in White Fryars; and publisher of The St. James's Evening Post, a very old newspaper, the precursor of The St. James's Chronicle" (Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. III, p. 467.) "In April, 1775, Mrs. Baskerville, who had carried on the printing business of her husband, announced that business for sale, but she continued the business of letter founding in all its parts." (Ibid., vol. III, p. 459.) "William Caslon, whose foundry was of great repute, died in 1778, leaving the business to his widow. Her merit and ability in conducting a capital business during the life of her husband, and afterwards till her son was capable of managing it, can only be known to those who had dealings with that manufacturer. In quickness of understanding, and activity of execution, she has left few equals among her sex." (Ibid., vol. III, p. 357.)
[315] Ibid., chap. 7, "The Domestic Novel."