The Adventures of Eovaai

Haywood's novel is the story of the beautiful Princess Eovaai. Groomed for the throne by her father, who teaches her Lockean notions of liberty, she is overthrown, enmeshed in civil war, and then magically transported to a foreign land by an evil man. Part magician, part politician, he plots to m...

Earla Wilputte is a professor in the Department of English at Saint Francis Xavier University and a specialist in eighteenth-century literature; she has written widely on Haywood's works.