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The Invention of Female Biography
Mary Hays worked alone in compiling the 302 entries that make up Female Biography (1803). By contrast, producing a modern, critical edition of the work relied on the expertise of 168 scholars across 18 countries. Essays in this collection focus on the exhaustive research, editorial challenges and innovative responses involved in this project.
Mary Hays (1759?1843)
Mary Hays, reformist, novelist, and innovative thinker, has been waiting two hundred years to be judged in a fair, scholarly, and comprehensive way. During her lifetime and long after, her role in the ongoing reformist debates in England at the end of the eighteenth century, intensified by the French Revolution, served as a lightening rod for opponents who attacked her controversial stance on women's intellectual competence and human rights. The author's intellectual history of Hays finally makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist thinker who advanced notions of tolerance that included women, an educator who broke new ground for female autodidacts, a philosophica...
The Idea of Being Free
Mary Hays (1759-1843) is often best remembered for her early revolutionary novels The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice. In this collection, however, Gina Luria Walker reveals the extraordinary range of Hays’s oeuvre. The selections are mainly from Hays’s non-fiction writings, including letters, life-writing, political commentary, and essays. The extracts demonstrate her importance as an advanced and innovative thinker, philosophical commentator, and writer of deliberately experimental fiction. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and full annotation. Texts by numerous other writers are interleaved chronologically with Hays’s writings to illustrate her idiosyncratic intellectual genealogy, how her understanding modulated over time, and the multiple ways in which she influenced and was influenced by the most significant issues and figures of her age.
Female Biography; Or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries
This groundbreaking book, originally published in 1803, offers a comprehensive look at the achievements of women throughout history. Featuring biographical sketches of women from all over the world, this book celebrates the contributions of women to society and culture. With clear and engaging prose, Hays makes a compelling case for the importance of recognizing the accomplishments of women. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.
Memoirs of Emma Courtney
Mary Hays' 'Memoirs of Emma Courtney' is a revolutionary novel published in 1796 that delves into themes of feminism, individualism, and societal pressures. Set in the late 18th century, the book follows the life of the outspoken and independent Emma Courtney as she navigates the challenges of a society that seeks to confine her within traditional gender roles. Hays' writing style is sharp and poignant, offering a thought-provoking exploration of the limitations placed on women during that era. The novel stands out as a pioneering work of feminist literature, challenging the status quo and advocating for women's autonomy and freedom. Hays incorporates elements of her own life and experiences to give depth and authenticity to Emma's character, making her a relatable and enduring figure in the history of feminist literature. 'Memoirs of Emma Courtney' is essential reading for anyone interested in the early feminist movement and the struggle for gender equality.
Women, Gender and Enlightenment
Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.
Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era
Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, Elizabeth A. Dolan shows that Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley experimented with aesthetic and scientific visual methods in order to expose the social structures underlying suffering. Dolan's exploration of illness, healing, and social justice in the writings of these three authors depends on two major questions: How do women writers' innovations in literary form make visible previously unseen suffering? And, how do women authors portray embodied vision to claim literary authority? Dolan's research encompasses a wide range of primary sources in science and medicine, including noso...
