Love-Letters on all occasions, lately passed between Persons of Distinction, collected by Mrs. E. H.

Published in London in 1730, this collection was compiled by the prolific novelist Eliza Fowler Haywood under the pseudonym Mrs. E. H. During this period, the epistolary form was a dominant mode of literary expression, and Haywood tapped into the public’s enduring fascination with the private lives of the social elite by presenting these letters as authentic correspondences exchanged among persons of distinction.

The volume serves as a quintessential example of the mid-eighteenth-century fascination with sensibility and the rhetoric of courtship. Haywood, already well-regarded for her skill in navigation of sentimental prose, intended the collection as both a source of entertainment and a guidebook of sorts, offering readers stylized templates of intimate communication that mirrored the aristocratic social conventions of the era.