Savage’s mention of eloping heiresses shows that he had been looking for exceptionable material in “Irish Artifice,” but finding little to his purpose there, had reverted to the stock objections to the scandal novels, where he was upon safe but not original ground.  In the body of the pamphlet he returned to assault the same breach.  The supposed writer, Iscariot Hackney, in stating his qualifications for membership in the Dunces’ Club, claims to be “very deeply read in all Pieces of Scandal, Obscenity, and Prophaneness, particularly in the Writings of Mrs. Haywood, Henley, Welsted, Morley, Foxton, Cooke, D’Foe, Norton, Woolston, Dennis, Nedward, Concanen, Journalist-Pit, and the Author of the Rival Modes.  From these I propose to compile a very grand Work, which shall not be inferior to Utopia, Carimania, Guttiverania, Art of Flogging, Daily Journal, Epigrams on the Dunciad, or Oratory Transactions.” ...  Although the author of “Utopia” and “Carimania” was pilloried in good company, she suffered more than she deserved.  She was indeed a friend of Theobald’s, for a copy of “The Dunciad:  with Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus,” bearing on the fly-leaf the following inscription: 

“Lewis Theobald to Mrs Heywood, as a testimony of his esteem, presents this book called The Dunciad, and acquaints her that Mr. Pope, by the profits of its publication, saved his library, wherein unpawned much learned lumber lay."[15]

shows that the two victims of Pope’s most bitter satire felt a sort of companionship in misfortune.  But there is no evidence to show that Eliza took any part in the War of the Dunces.

But that the immortal infamy heaped upon her by “The Dunciad” injured her prospects cannot be doubted.  She was far from being a “signal illustration of the powerlessness of this attack upon the immediate fortunes of those assailed,” as Professor Lounsbury describes her.[16] It is true that she continued to write, though with less frequency than before, and that some of her best-sellers were produced at a time when Pope’s influence was at its height, but that the author was obliged to take extreme measures to avoid the ill consequences of the lampoon upon her may be proved by comparing the title-pages of her earlier and later novels.

Before the publication of “The Dunciad” the adventuress in letters had enjoyed a large share of popularity.  Most of her legitimate works were advertised as “Written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood” and bore her name in full prominently displayed on the title-page.  That her signature possessed a distinct commercial value in selling popular fiction was amusingly illustrated by a bit of literary rascality practiced in 1727, when Arthur Bettesworth, the bookseller, issued a chapbook called “The Pleasant and Delightful