in the politics of literary history" (Backscheider, p. 100). She is also being re-evaluated by feminist scholars and rated highly. Interest has burgeoned since the 1980s. Her novels are seen as stylistically innovative. Her plays and political writing attracted most attention in her own time, and she was a full player in that difficult public sphere. Her novels, voluminous and frequent, are now seen as stylistically innovative and important transitions from the erotic seduction novels and poetry of Aphra Behn, particularly Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684), and the straightforward, plain-spoken novels of Frances Burney. In her own day, her plays and political writing attracted the most comment and attention – she was a full player in the difficult public sphere – but today her novels carry the most interest and demonstrate the most significant innovation. As a publisher Works published under her imprint: Haywood not only wrote works to be published, but participated in the publication process. Sometimes in collaboration with William Hatchett, at least nine works under her own imprint. Most were available for sale at the Sign of Fame (her pamphlet shop in Covent Gardens), including: Anti-Pamela by Eliza Haywood (1741) Sublime Character of his Excellency Somebody by Unknown (1741) Title page states that the work was "Originally Written by a Celebrated French Wit" The Busy-Body: or, Successful Spy by Susannah Centlivre (1742) The Ghost of Eustace Budgel Esq. to the Man in Blue possibly by William Hatchett (1742) The Right Honourable, sir Robert Walpole, (Now Earl of Orford) Vindicated by "A Brother Minister in Disgrace" (1742) The Virtuous Villager by Eliza Haywood (1742) A Remarkable Cause on a Note of Hand by William Hatchett (1742) The Equity of Parnassus by Unknown (1744) A Letter from H[enry] G[orin]g by Eliza Haywood (1749) King notes that the 18th-century definition of "publisher" could also cover bookselling. King is uncertain whether Haywood produced the books and pamphlets that she sold (as Spedding indicates) or whether she was a bookseller, especially for her own early productions. Haywood sometimes collaborated on publishing so as to share the costs, as she did with Cogan on The Virtuous Villager. In any case, Haywood was certainly a bookseller, for many and various works "to be had" at the Sign of Fame did not bare her imprint. Works by Haywood Collections by Eliza Haywood published before 1850: The Danger of Giving Way to Passion