ELIZA

The art piece Metamorphosis by Eliza Au is a complex assortment of seven large white structures on a wall that require keen observational skills to better understand what their function is. Metamorphosis was created in 2017 and uses wood, paper, and ceramic as it’s medium. The base of these structures is a large white circle made of wood. Each circle has 6 points coming off of its wooden frame, which create a sort of star shape on top of the white circles. Within the center of the points, each…

Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze by Eliza Haywood appears to be a mystical tale of a woman who uses her ability to change her appearance in order to pursue a lover. Once compared to Samuel Johnson’s idea of what the new task of novels should be, a variety of the elements of the novel contribute to the feeling of a romantic story, giving it the illusion of being meant purely for entertainment as opposed to being connected to the, “living world” (2924). However, Eliza Haywood adds enough complexity…

Following her sexual encounter with Beauplaisir disguised as a prostitute, the young heroine of Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina contemplates her actions in relation to the imagined responses of the social world: “the Intrigue being a Secret, my Disgrace will be so too: - - I shall hear no Whispers as I pass, - she is Forsaken: - the odious word Forsaken will never wound my ears; nor will my Wrongs excite either the Mirth or Pity of the talking World” (232). In other words, the young lady expresses…

protagonist Eliza Wharton is a promiscuous female that breaks the early American stereotype of settling down with a man as soon as she can find one. In the early stages of America, women were to find a husband in journey to become a wife and a housekeeper. Wharton did not like these gender stereotypes and believed she should have been able to “sleep-around” and flirt with men before settling down. Her sense of freedom leads readers to believe Wharton represents new America in many ways. Eliza…

Erin Elizabeth Keenan Group A Eliza Haywood October 11, 2015 Eliza Haywood’s novel Fantomina: Love in a Maze portrays the fictional story of a woman who disguises herself in a number of different identities in order to seduce the man she loves. This novel is apart of amatory fiction, a genre of 17th and 18th century British literature written by women for women concerning novels of romantic love and sexual desire. Haywood’s Fantomina was the best selling ‘50 shades’ novel of its day. This novel…

In the primary source, “Eliza Lucas Letters, 1740”, Lucas wrote two letters to her friend and father. Lucas shares her unique experience maintaining the crops and her life during colonial America. As a young woman in the 18th century, Lucas’s letters reflect the importance of land…

insight into how the British viewed the natives that were encountered during colonization of new lands. To help explain the British world understanding, I will be referencing the Narrative of the capture, sufferings, and miraculous escape of Mrs. Eliza Fraser, a true story of a woman who is shipwrecked in Queensland, Australia, in 1836. From this text, along with analysis from Lynette Russel, we can see the British held the view that there was a very clear difference between “civilized” people…

constraints placed on women in the 19th century. In The Coquette, Eliza Wharton is presented with two choices, one man or the other. The option never exists for her to simply not be with a man, to not conform to the societal expectation of women. The Awakening presents Edna Pontellier, a wife and a mother, transforming from the ideal picture of woman to pursuing her own desires. Women’s desire is not only shown from the plot, the lives of Eliza and Edna, but also rhetoric. This rhetoric of…

What then would be daring and provocative, but would now be considered soft-core pornography, Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina (1743) deals with the sexual desire of both men and women. They are held as equal in this story, perhaps even moving slightly more to the women’s side as the title character Fantomina is often the one making first contact, as well as putting in the extra effort of creating costumes to attain her next fix of pleasure. Yet Haywood’s heroine goes beyond her disguises’ purpose of…

to 1912, when Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo donated 3,000 cherry blossom trees to the city. Today, they seem to be an inherent part of the D.C. cityscape. However, the process to bring them over took many years of collaborative effort, beginning with Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, an American writer and geographer, who would go on to become the first female board member of the National Geographic Society. In 1885, after returning from her first trip to Japan, Scidmore approached the U.S. Army…