Fantomina

Question 1

What is the full title of Fantomina?

Answer 1

Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze. Being a Secret History of Amour Between Two Persons of Condition

Question 2

What year did Haywood write Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze

Answer 2

1724

Question 3

What genre does Haywood use to describe her novel?

Answer 3

A ‘History’.
This term is characteristic of the emerging novel genre. Blurs fact and fiction in this new genre of novel (came from either History or Romance.)

Question 4

What French references are in the novel?

Answer 4

‘Secret History of Amour’
‘Beauplaisir’
‘Sent her to a monastery in France’

Question 5

What is the name of Fantomina’s lover?

Answer 5

Beauplaisir

Literally: beautiful pleasure, but sexual connotations

Question 6

What genre, other than the novel, does Fantomina participate in?

Answer 6

Conduct literature.

Also, History

Question 7

What was Haywood’s periodical called?

Answer 7

The Female Spectator

It extended the coffeehouse culture to include women (to some degree, not actually in the coffeehouse space)

Question 8

What quote condemns Fantomina?

Answer 8

‘The blame is wholly hers’

Question 9

Who says ‘the blame is wholly hers’ in Fantomina?

Answer 9

Her mother

Question 10

What gender is Fantomina’s child?

Answer 10

A girl

A sense of cycle? But born into London, unlike F, and born illegitimately.

Question 11

What name encapsulates Fantomina’s nature of adopting personas?

Answer 11

Incognita

Question 12

What is an effect of the letters? In Fantomina

Answer 12

Shows duplicity of both Beauplaisir and Fantomina.

Question 13

What does Fantomina say on receiving Beauplaisir’s letter?

Answer 13

Traitor! (cried she!)

Emphasised in letters

Question 14

What effect does the sudden insertion of ‘I’ in Fantomina’s third person narrative have?

Answer 14

Narrator’s voice brings fiction into reality.

Question 15

What are Fantomina’s personas called?

Answer 15

Fantomina
Celia
Widow Bloomer

(Incognita)

Question 16

What is the quote in Fantomina that references an embryo?

Answer 16

She had ‘another project in embryo’

Question 17

What is the quote in Fantomina that foreshadows her pregnancy?

Answer 17

She had ‘another project in embryo’

Question 18

What quote shows Fantomina’s country background?

Answer 18

She was bred for the most part in the country
…
A stranger to the world

Question 19

A quote that shows Fantomina’s initial innocence.

Answer 19

She was ‘a stranger to the world’

Question 20

What is the quote that shows ‘Fantomina’ using first person voice, blurring reality and fiction?

Answer 20

‘I know there are men…’

Question 21

What year did Haywood publish The Female Spectator?

Answer 21

1744

So when she wrote Fantomina in 1724 the coffehouse culture was still very limited for women

Question 22

Before the reader learns Fantomina’s name, how is she referred to?

Answer 22

A young lady of distinguished birth
Lady Such-a-one

Woman
Girl

Question 23

Instead of a name, what is Fantomina called?

Answer 23

Lady such-a-one
A young lady of distinguished birth

Woman. Girl. (Only when she is ‘a supposed prostitute’ though)

Question 24

What quote shows Beauplaisir raping Fantomina?

Answer 24

She was undone; and he gained a victory

Question 25

(Fantomina) She was undone…

Answer 25

And he gained a victory.