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" ... Haywood's first novel, Love in Excess [is] ... a well-crafted novel in which the claims of love and ambition are pursued through multiple storylines until the heroine engineers a melodramatic conclusion."--Back cover.
First publish date: 1719
Authors: Eliza Fowler Haywood
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