Fantomina (Annotated)

Eliza Haywood's Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze is a brisk, audacious prose fiction of erotic intrigue, disguise, and social critique. First published in 1725, it follows an unnamed gentlewoman who repeatedly transforms herself—into Fantomina, Celia, the Widow Bloomer, and Incognita—to pursue and outwit the inconstant Beauplaisir. Written in the lively idiom of early eighteenth-century amatory ficti...