Eliza Haywood (1693 -1756) was an English writer, actress and publisher. Haywood wrote over 70 works in the genres of fiction, drama, poetry, translations, and periodicals. Haywoods significance in the 18th century is in helping establish the novel as a form of literature. Haywoods writing career began in 1719 with the first two installments of Love in Excess. Her romance novels were called bodice-rippers. Haywood began her acting career in 1715 in Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. In 1735, she wrote a one-volume Companion to the Theatre. The Fortunate Foundlings begins, "It was in the...