(BIB) Includes bibliographical references and index.||(BIB) Introduction -- Challenging the status quo. Marriage in Haywood; or, amatory reading rewarded / Aleksondra Hultquist -- The unprotected woman in Eliza Haywood's The history of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy / Karen Cajka -- Lives, letters, and tales in Sarah Scott's Journey through every stage of life / Eve Tavor Bannet -- Educations in epistemology. Sarah Fielding's Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia and the British historical novel / Kathleen M. Oliver -- Arabella unbound: wit, judgment, and the cure of Lennox's female Quixote / Patricia L. Hamilton -- Henrietta on page and stage / Susan Carlile -- Creating community. The "latent seeds of coquetry": amatory fiction and the 1750's novel / Jennie Batchelor -- "The sole business of ladies in romances": sharing histories in Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote / Katharine Beutner -- "To such as are willing to understand": considering Fielding's Community of imagined readers / Emily C. Friedman -- Performing in the literary marketplace. The afterlife and strange surprising adventures of Haywood's Amatories (with thoughts on Betsy Thoughtless) / Kathryn R. King -- Reading female readers: The female Quixote and female Quixotism / Marta Kvande -- Putting women in their place: locating women novelists in the 1750s / Betty A. Schellenberg.||(DON) Donation from and inscribed by the author. 

267 p. ; 24 cm.