Eliza Haywood published Adventures of Eovaai in 1736, later known as The Unfortunate Princess. The prose fiction used romance, fantasy and political allegory in a period when women writers were often dismissed as merely scandalous. Haywood turned popular narrative into sharp commentary on power and deception.

Haywood's work is important for recovering women as innovators in early fiction. Her blend of romance and satire influenced the narrative environment from which later novels and verse tales emerged.