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The Ex-Classics Web Site In Preparation Eliza Haywood's Self-Help Books. Eliza Haywood was a very popular writer of light fiction and melodramas in the 18th centory. We have some of her plays and novels on our site already. She also wrote works of advice on how to conduct oneself according to one's condition of life, a genre very popular at the time. These -- A Present for a Servant Maid; or, the Sure Means of Gaining Love and Esteem (1743); The Wife; The Young Lady: and The Husband (all 1756) afford a fascinating glimpse into the conventions of those times, so different to our own. Some of this would make you laugh out loud, others would make you thankful you do not live in those times. Diary of a Lover of Literature, by Thomas Green Thomas Green kept tthis diary, containing reviews of everything he read for over thirty years. Some of it was published in book form in 1810. We already have this book version of this diary -- at https://www.exclassics.com/diary/diaryintro.htm. Further extracts for the diary were published in the  Gentleman's Magazine in the 1830s, and these will be added to our site. Our Town, by Patrick Sugrue. Generations of Irish schoolchildren have had to read An Baile Seo 'Gainne by "An Seabhac," First published in 1912, it is a collection of humorous or wry sketches and stories. There is however no English translation available -- until ours.

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