Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

London

Printed by T. Gardner

1751

"Amongst the crowd of tormenting ideas, the remembrance, that she owed all the vexation she laboured under, entirely to the acquaintance she had with miss Forward, came strong into her thoughts"

The agitations of her mind would not suffer her to take one moment of repose for the whole night, nor did the morning afford any more tranquility:--the disturbance of her heart flew up into her head, and occasioned so violent a pain there, that she was as unable as unwilling to get out of bed. --She lay 'till some hours after the time in which they usually breakfasted, nor would take any refreshment, though the tea was brought to her bedside. --Amongst the crowd of tormenting ideas, the remembrance, that she owed [Page 125] all the vexation she laboured under, entirely to the acquaintance she had with miss Forward, came strong into her thoughts, and she had not rose the whole day, if not moved to it by the impatience of venting her spleen on that unfortunate woman, which she did, in a letter to her containing these lines:

Population::Crowd

Searching "mind" and "crowd" in HDIS (Prose); found again "ideas"

9 entries in the ESTC (1751, 1752, 1762, 1765, 1768, 1772, 1783).

See Eliza Haywood, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, In Four Volumes (London: Printed by T. Gardner, 1751). <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>

Reading The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, ed. Christine Blouch (Peterborough: Broadview, 1998).

03/13/2006