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.
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