Effectiveness of 1st Disguise in Fantomina

Effectiveness of 1st Disguise in Fantomina

Fantomina, 1st Disguise, 18th Century

This is a passage from Fantomina that highlights how a simple change in the protagonist's outer appearance can have a drastic change on how others at that time treated her.

Eliza Haywood

Haywood, Eliza. “Fantomina.” Contributed by Laura Dziuban and Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Celebration of Women Writers, BUILD-A-BOOK, digital.library.upenn.edu/women/haywood/fantomina/fantomina.html.

BUILD-A-BOOK

1693-1756

Gray Simmons

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Fantomina

Novel

English

Passage of Novel

She had no sooner design'd this Frolick, than she put it in Execution; and muffling her Hoods over her Face, went the next Night into the Gallery-Box, and practising as much as she had observ'd, at that Distance, the Behaviour of that Woman, was not long before she found her Disguise had answer'd the Ends she wore it for: – A Crowd of Purchasers of all Degrees and Capacities were in a Moment gather'd about her, each endeavouring to out-bid the other, in offering her a Price for her Embraces. – She listen'd to 'em all, and was not a little diverted in her Mind at the Disappointment she shou'd give to so many, each of which thought himself secure of gaining her.

Novel