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Eliza Haywood was a very popular writer of light fiction and melodramas in the 18th centory. We have some of her plays and novels on our site already. She also wrote works of advice on how to conduct oneself according to one's condition of life, a genre very popular at the time. These -- A Present for a Servant Maid; or, the Sure Means of Gaining Love and Esteem (1743); The Wife; The Young Lady: and The Husband (all 1756) afford a fascinating glimpse into the conventions of those times, so different to our own. Some of this would make you laugh out loud, others would make you thankful you do not live in those times. |
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The Ex-Classics project was founded in 2000 to fill an unmet need. When reading the blurb etc. to a book by Charles Dickens or Charlotte Bronte, say, we would often come across sentences like "Favourite reading included . . ." If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for us. So off we go to the library or bookshop, to be met first with blank stares and then with the information that the book has been out of print for decades. Our first two books were Gil Blas and Hudibras, which are prime examples of this. This web site is dedicated to rescuing these works from obscurity and making them available online, both for reading directly, and for downloading.
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