Women in the eighteenth century were living in a time of female suppression that demanded limited frivolous education for women and also discouraged female sexuality.In Fantomina Eliza Haywood portrays women through many archetypal roles such as prostiture, servant, and widow. These are typical roles of women that have no power in the 18th century. While frequently Haywood's "fictions are counted as part of the significant body of women who wrote transparent narratives of personal desire and sexual adventure for other women" (Kramnick 646), in reality her scandal/amatory fiction was "used [as] the cover story to mask the feminist ... intentions" (Schofield, 5) of her fiction.What is interesting is how Haywood takes the role of prostitute, servant and widow, and gives Fantomina power in these roles through her sexuality.  Haywood was "determined not to acquiesce quietly in male-imposed patterns and rules, and unwilling to see women remain in an inferior position, Haywood challended such complacency and offered new alternatives of viewing the feminine self" (Schofield, 9). Haywood created her novels of titillation to be popular in the marketplace, drawing women in and providing them with an alternative reality where the women are in control of  their own sexuality, while allowing them to be acceptably risque. The character of Fantomina is able to manipulate Beauplaisir in a manner that satisfied her sexually without the love that went along with it: "While the knowledge of his inconstancy and levity of Nature kept her from having real tenderness for him she would else have had, she found the means of gratifying the inclination she ahd for his agreeable person" (Demaria, 723).