‘The Other Eliza Haywood’
The Third Annual
Chawton House Library and University of Notre Dame
London Lecture
Professor Kathryn King
(University of Montevallo)
‘The Other Eliza Haywood’
1st March 2012
6.00 pm Reception with drinks at University of Notre Dame’s London Centre
1 Suffolk Street, London, SW1Y 4HG
7.00 pm Lecture
Standard accounts of the novelist, playwright and pamphleteer Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) admire her bold celebrations of heterosexual desire and give her a life that features a husband, a slew of male lovers and two (or more) bastard children. Kathryn King's forthcoming Political Biography of Eliza Haywood looks afresh at the available evidence to disentangle Haywood from the rumour and innuendo that have 'sexed up' the life.
This talk on 'the other Haywood' goes one step further. It suggests that heteronormative habits of mind may have prevented critics and biographers from recognizing potentially queer spaces in the stories told by Haywood and in the stories that we tell about eighteenth-century women writers.
The lecture is free, however pre-registration is required.
Please call Chawton House Library with your details: 01420-541010 or
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