immoral female author who capitalizes on stories of (sexual) scandal – and thus earns an independent living which gives her a dangerous potential for licentious behaviour – was the legacy of early 18th century writings like Delarivière (or Mary de la Rivière) Manley’s highly popular satires of sexual and political corruption (The Secret History of Queen Zarah, 1705, The New Atlantis, 1709) or Eliza Haywood’s explorations of power games between genders in works like Fantomina (1725). As a reaction to such images of ‘immodestly’ public women writers, later female authors wishing at least formally to conform to ideals of private domestic femininity often opted for
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