Your niece has behav'd like a Bodikins! I am in a Passion; and for her sake, I'll never make Love to any Woman again. I am resolved.The Intriguing Chambermaid is one of Henry Fielding's lesser-known dramatic works. Fielding's plays were successful on the stage. Like the others, this one is a satirical romantic comedy on meanness and hypocrisy, with which Fielding, as a Justice of the Peace, had great experience.

Campbell draws on recent work that sees the eighteenth century as a crucial moment in the history of sexuality and gender, and she critiques new treatments of the novel's function in defining domestic femininity