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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.
The essays included in Mary Hays's 'Female Biography': Collective
Biography as Enlightenment Feminism emerge from the authors'
collaboration in producing the first modern edition of Hays's work
in the Chawton House Library Edition (2013, 2014). This book
explores Hays's larger ambitions to lay the foundation for an
encyclopaedic work by, for, and about women. The scholars'
contributions to this volume engage with some of the multiple
problems and possibilities that Female Biography presented. Drawing
on this effort, individual scholars examine Hays's attempts to
correct existing masculinist constructs which framed the 'universe
of knowledge' then and persist in our time. Hays perceived that
these had the cumulative effect of rendering women invisible. She
responded to such absence by providing examples of the extent of
female worth across Western society. Other contributions focus
specifically on the subjects of Hays's entries, looking at how she
used source material and laid the groundwork for future
biographical studies of women's lives. Both Female Biography and
Hays herself have continually presented difficulties in
categorization: not quite Enlightenment, not quite Victorian
either. This book recontextualizes her work, demonstrating the
radicalism and originality of her feminism, even in its
post-Wollstonecraftian phase, as well as the longevity of her
influence. As such, it will be of interest to those conducting
research into Hays, her subjects, and the evolution of life-writing
by women. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Women's Writing.
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.
The essays included in Mary Haysâs âFemale Biographyâ:
Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism emerge from the
authorsâ collaboration in producing the first modern edition of
Haysâs work in the Chawton House Library Edition (2013, 2014).
This book explores Haysâs larger ambitions to lay the foundation
for an encyclopaedic work by, for, and about women. The scholarsâ
contributions to this volume engage with some of the multiple
problems and possibilities that Female Biography presented. Drawing
on this effort, individual scholars examine Haysâs attempts to
correct existing masculinist constructs which framed the
âuniverse of knowledgeâ then and persist in our time. Hays
perceived that these had the cumulative effect of rendering women
invisible. She responded to such absence by providing examples of
the extent of female worth across Western society. Other
contributions focus specifically on the subjects of Haysâs
entries, looking at how she used source material and laid the
groundwork for future biographical studies of womenâs lives. Both
Female Biography and Hays herself have continually presented
difficulties in categorization: not quite Enlightenment, not quite
Victorian either. This book recontextualizes her work,
demonstrating the radicalism and originality of her feminism, even
in its post-Wollstonecraftian phase, as well as the longevity of
her influence. As such, it will be of interest to those conducting
research into Hays, her subjects, and the evolution of life-writing
by women. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Womenâs Writing.
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 philosophical
commentator who translated Enlightenment ideas for a burgeoning
female audience, a Dissenting historiographer who reinvented
'female biography,' and a writer of deliberately experimental
fiction, including the roman a clef Memoirs of Emma Courtney. The
author approaches Hays from several disciplinary
perspectives-historical, biographical, literary, critical,
theological, and political-to elucidate the multiple ways in which
Hays contributed and responded to, and influenced and was
influenced by, the most significant issues and figures of her time.
Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the
attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary
Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an
ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women.
Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the
attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary
Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an
ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women.
Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the
attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary
Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an
ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women. The
volume will be of use to those interested in the history of
feminism and eighteenth-century history.
Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the
attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary
Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an
ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women.
This volume of Memoirs of Women Writers contains full texts
reproduced in facsimile with new scholarly apparatus. The texts
have been carefully selected to illustrate various themes in
women's history. They include: Mary Hays, Female Biography; or
Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and
Countries (1803).
This book is fifth of the six-volume modern scholarly edition on
the stories of real women's experiences. Written by the autodidact
Mary Hays, it attests to the existence of active, learned and
powerful women who produced new knowledge and made genuine
contributions to cultural capital.
This book is second volume of Mary Hays's Female Biography; a
scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences, such
as those of Elizabeth Bland and Boadecia. It attests to the
existence of active, learned and powerful women who produced new
knowledge and contributed to cultural capital.
This volume is a review of the autobiographical account Mary Hays,
Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women,
of All Ages and Countries (1803), Volume III, which sheds light on
the controversial role of the female writers in the early
nineteenth century.
This book is about Mrs. Hannah More, who had acted as a
controversial patron to Ann Yearsley, and had used her own
reputation as a poet in support of the abolitionist cause. It is
the collaborative effort of Roberts, Bickersteth and Seeley that
testifies the complexity of her enduring influence.
This volume is a review of the autobiographical account Alicia
LeFanu, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan,
which sheds light on the controversial role of the female writers
in the early nineteenth century.
This book is about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her charitable work. It
is a principal source of reference for the work she undertook as an
author, philanthropist and pioneer in the promotion and institution
of educational opportunities for impoverished children in the early
nineteenth century.
This book is the second volume about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her
charitable work. It contains selected content on her life and
writings with original letters, her meditations and prayers for
impoverished children in the early nineteenth century.
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.
William Godwin's memoir of his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, marks a
transition in Godwin's philosophical development from extreme
rationalism to the recognition of the moral importance of feeling
and sympathy which was to energize his later writings. Memoirs also
belongs to a tradition of biographical writing that sought to
transform the consciousness of readers by using individual history
as an agent of historical change. Written during the weeks
following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an
interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings
and her personal history, a candid account of her various
relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with
Godwin. This modern, scholarly edition, geared for student use,
includes a wide range of primary sources, together with excerpts
from Godwin's other writings and from biographical models.
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