[19] Probably a misprint.  When the novels appeared, Idalia was the Unfortunate Mistress, Lasselia the Self-abandon’d.  Perhaps because the work outgrew its original proportions, or because short novels found a readier sale, the five were never published under the inclusive cautionary caption.

[20] E. Gosse, Gossip in a Library, 161, “What Ann Lang Read.”  Only one of Mrs. Haywood’s novels, The City Jilt, was ever issued in cheap form.  T. Bailey, the printer, evidently combined his printing business with the selling of patent medicines.

[21] The latter may be read in Savage’s Poems, Cooke’s edition, II, 162.  The complimentary verses first printed before the original issue.

[22] His poem To Mrs. Eliza Haywood on her Writings was hastily inserted in the fourth volume of Secret Histories, Novels, and Poems when that collection had reached its third edition (1732).  In the fourth edition of ten years later it stands, with the verses already described, at the beginning of Volume I.

[23] In the Preface to Lasselia (1723), for instance, she feels obliged to defend herself from “that Aspersion which some of my own Sex have been unkind enough to throw upon me, that I seem to endeavour to divert more than to improve the Minds of my Readers.  Now, as I take it, the Aim of every Person, who pretends to write (tho’ in the most insignificant and ludicrous way) ought to tend at least to a good Moral Use; I shou’d be sorry to have my Intentions judg’d to be the very reverse of what they are in reality.  How far I have been able to succeed in my Desires of infusing those Cautions, too necessary to a Number, I will not pretend to determine; but where I have had the Misfortune to fail, must impute it either to the Obstinacy of those I wou’d persuade, or to my own Deficiency in that very Thing which they are pleased to say I too much abound in—­a true description of Nature.”

[24] An eight page verse satire entitled The Female Dunces.  Inscribed to Mr. Pope (1733) after criticizing the conduct of certain well known ladies, concludes with praise of a nymph who we may believe was intended to represent Eliza Haywood: 

  “Eliza good Examples shews in vain,
  Despis’d, and laugh’d at by the vicious Train;
  So bright she shines, she might adorn a Throne
  Not with a borrow’d Lustre, but her Own.”

[25] A single exception was The Surprise (1724), dedicated to Steele in the following words:  “The little History I presume to offer, being composed of Characters full of Honour and Generosity, I thought I had a fit Opportunity, by presenting it to one who has made it so much his Study to infuse those Principles, and whose every Action is a shining Example of them, to express my Zeal in declaring myself with all imaginable Regard,” etc., etc.