The victim of prejudice
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The victim of prejudice
(Broadview literary texts)
Broadview Press, c1998
2nd ed
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-260)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mary Hays was an outspoken Radical intellectual in the turbulent decade of the 1790's. She argued vehemently for the need to recognise the moral and rational qualities of women, the necessity of a better system of education for girls, and the importance of giving women without fortunes a career without 'servitude in prostitution.'
The Victim of Prejudice-Hays' second novel, first published in 1799-is a powerful indictment of man-made institutions such as the courts and legislative systems which favour persons of wealth and rank. In the novel the metaphor of women's confinement becomes real as the heroine's worst nightmares, her horrors and sense of helplessness become a physical reality.
The Victim of Prejudice is of great interest for its strong feminist content, and it is both powerful and moving as a literary work; this edition makes this important late eighteenth-century text again available to a wide readership.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Note to the Second Edition
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Mary Hays: A Brief Chronology
The Victim of Prejudice
Appendix A: Debates about Frailty, Chastity, and the Dangers of Seduction
Edward Moore, Fables for the Female Sex
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Advice to Unmarried Women: To Recover and Reclaim the Fallen
[Mary Hays], Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women
Appendix B: On Female Education, Abilities, and Rights
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Mary Hays, Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous
[Mary Hays], Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women
M.H. [Mary Hays], "Improvements Suggested in Female Education"
Appendix C: On Novels and Romances
Mary Hays, Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous
M.H. [Mary Hays] "On Novel Writing"
Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews
The Analytical Review
The Critical Review
The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine
Select Bibliography
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