The idea of being free : a Mary Hays reader
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The idea of being free : a Mary Hays reader
（Broadview editions）
Broadview Press, c2006
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"Mary Hays in her times: a brief chronology": p. 23-28
Bibliography: p. 335-343
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Introduction Mary Hays in Her Times: A Brief Chronology Sources A Note on the Text Chapter One 1779-81 Mary Hays and John Eccles Love-Letters Samuel Richardson From Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady (1747-48) Edward Young From Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
- or,The Complaint (1741) Alexander Pope From Imitations of Horace,The First Satire (1733) "Eloisa to Abelard" (1717) Chapter Two 1782-92 From Robert Robinson's Letters to Mary Hays Jacques Saurin Sermon on the Repentance of the Unchaste Woman (1775, 1784) Robert Robinson Slavery Inconsistent with the Spirit of Christianity (1786, 1788) Gilbert Wakefield An Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship (1791) [Mary Hays] Cursory Remarks on an Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship ... [by] Eusebia (1791,1792) Gilbert Wakefield Letter to William Frend (undated) William Frend Letter to Hays (16 April 1792) Anna Barbauld Remarks on Mr.Wakefield's Enquiry (1792) George Dyer "On Liberty," Poetics (1812) Robert Robinson A Political Catechism (1782) Report of Edmund Burke's speech, March 2, 1790 William Frend Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-republicans (1793) Chapter Three 1793 Mary Hays Letters and Essays I, II, III,V, XII (1793) Joseph Priestley The History and Present State of Electricity: with original experiments (1767) William Enfield "The Pyrrhonic Sect," History of Philosophy (1791) Theophilus Lindsey Letter to Mary Hays (15 April 1793) Mary Wollstonecraft Letters to Mary Hays (12 November 1792
- [late 1792]) Chapter Four 1794-99 Mary Hays Letter to William Godwin (13 October 1795) Mary Hays Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) Matthew Prior Henry and Emma, a Poem, Upon the Model of the Nut-brown Maid(1709) Jean-Jacques Rousseau From La Nouvelle Heloise: Julie, or the New Eloise. Letters of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps(1761) William Godwin From Things as They Are
- or,The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) [Thomas S. Norgate] The Cabinet, "On The Rights of Woman" (1795) Helvetius in The Cabinet "Abbreviation from the Code of Nature" (1795) [William Enfield] From Monthly Magazine, "The Enquirer." No. III (1796) Mary Hays Letters to the Editor, Monthly Magazine (1796) From The Victim of Prejudice (1799) Richard Polwhele From The Unsex'd Females (1798) Chapter Five 1800-07 [Mary Hays] Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women (1798) "Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft," Annual Necrology for 1797-8
- Including, also,Various Articles of Neglected Biography,Vol. I (1800) From Female Biography, or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries Alphabetically Arranged in SixVolumes (1803) "Preface" "Anne Askew" "Catharine Macaulay Graham" "Heloise" From "Mrs. Charlotte Smith," Public Characters of 1800-1801 (1807) Letters to William Tooke (1799-1807) Chapter Six 1814-36 Mary Hays Letter to Henry Crabb Robinson (26 November 1814) Memoirs of Queens (1821) Preface "Caroline, Wife of George IV" Mary Shelley Letter to Mary Hays (20 April 1836) Mary Hays Letter to Mary Shelley (30 November 1836) Epilogue Mary Hays Letter to Henry Crabb Robinson (April 1842) Mary Hays Last Will and Testament John Hays Letters to Henry Crabb Robinson (20 February, 23 February 1843) E. Kell "Memoir of Mary Hays," The Christian Reformer Mary Robinson Brown Letter to Hays (17 May 1791) [Elizabeth Hays] "Josepha, or the Pernicious Effects of Early Indulgence,"Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous (1793) Charles Lamb Letter to Matilda Betham (27 September 1811) Henry Crabb Robinson Handwritten Note (c. 1843) Capel Lofft Letter to William Godwin [undated] (1805) Amelia Alderson Letter to Mary Wollstonecraft (15 December 1796) Amelia Alderson Letter to William Godwin (22 December 1796) William Godwin Letter to David Booth (14 October 1799) Robert Southey Letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (16 January 1800) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Letter to Robert Southey (25 January 1800) Elizabeth Hamilton Letter to Mary Hays (13 March 1797) Elizabeth Hamilton Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) William Beloe The Sexagenarian
- or the Reflections of a Literary Life (1817) Eliza Fenwick Letters to Mary Hays (31 March 1806, 10 February1813) William Thompson Appeal of One Half of the Human Race,Women, against the pretensions of the other half, Men, to retain them in political andthence in civil and domestic slavery, in reply to a paragraph of Mr. Mill's celebrated article on Government (1825) Joyce M.S.Tompkins "Mary Hays, Philosophess," The Polite Marriage: Eighteenth Century Essays (1938) Anna Barbauld Letter to Maria Edgeworth (1804) Kenneth N. Cameron Shelley and his Circle (1961) Roy Porter Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2000) Barbara Taylor "Gallic Philosophesses," Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (2003) Mary Hays Letter to Henry Crabb Robinson (1807) Appendix A: Principal Figures and Important Terms Appendix B: Selected Reviews of Hays's Publications Reviews of Letters and Essays From the Critical Review (August 1793) From the English Review (October 1793) Reviews of Female Biography From the Critical Review (April 1803) From the Monthly Magazine (June 1803) From the Monthly Review (January 1804) Select Bibliography
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