of them was originally published at the Sign of Fame, and they could
hardly have been pirated, since Cogan, who issued the volume wherein the
advertisement appeared, was also the original publisher of
_The Busy-Body_. The _Anti-Pamela_ had already been advertised for
Huggonson in June, 1741, and had played a small part in the series of
pamphlets, novels, plays, and poems excited by Richardson's fashionable
history. If Mrs. Haywood wrote it, she was biting the hand that fed her,
for _The Virtuous Villager_ probably owed its second translation and
what little sale it may have enjoyed to the similarity between the
victorious virgin and the popular Pamela.

[31]
B.M. (MSS. Sloane. 4059. ff. 144), undated.

[32]
_Monthly Review_, II, 167, Jan. 1750.

[33]
The _Biographia Dramatica_ gives this date. Clara Reeve, _Progress of
Romance_, I, 121, however, gives 1758, while Mrs. Griffith, _Collection
of Novels_ (1777), II, 159, prefers 1759. The two novels were
_Clementina_ (1768), a revision of _The Agreeable Caledonian_, and _The
History of Leonora Meadowson_ (1788).




CHAPTER II

SHORT ROMANCES OF PASSION