Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press.
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Mary Hays
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Standard Name: Hays, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Hays
Pseudonym: Eusebia
Pseudonym: M. H.
Pseudonym: A Woman
MH
is one of the best-known among the group of radical feminists surrounding Mary Wollstonecraft; she is notable for arguing from emotion, even passion, as well as reason. She wrote two novels, poetry, and a number of polemical and biographical works.
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | Eliza Fenwick | Accustomed to India, neither of the Honnors had any idea how European servants are accustomed to be treated; Mr Honnor was often an oppressive and tyrannical master, nay even niggardly to comforts towards them... |
| politics | Eliza Fenwick | Fenwick's initial hatred of slavery lapsed into tolerance, in a society where slavery was woven into the fabric of life. She began hiring slaves, according to established practice, from owners who kept them for that... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Fenwick | Secresy had six reviews in 1795; EF
wrote much later that they blamed the principles but commended the style & Imagination. |
| Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | Charlotte Smith
knew of this work-in-progress on 26 July 1800, when she told Mary Hays
how she wished she could help EF
with money or moral support. On 31 October 1801 Hays noted that Thomas Underwood |
| Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | EF
's personal letters, as represented by the survivors among them from every stage of her life, are still highly readable. She wrote to her son Orlando while he was away at school, and to... |
| Publishing | Eliza Fenwick | EF
's letters to Mary Hays
were edited (considerably revised, with significant passages omitted and some letters divided up) by Hays's great-great-niece Annie F. Wedd
. These printed letters run from 22 October 1798 to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fenwick | EF
wrote to Mary Hays
that she had determined, if possible, to consider myself & children totally separated from [John Fenwick
's] good or bad fortunes. Fenwick, Eliza, and Mary Hays. The Fate of the Fenwicks. Editor Wedd, Annie F., Methuen. 9 |
| Occupation | Eliza Fenwick | EF
wrote to Mary Hays
that she was ensconced as a governess with the Mocattas at 33 Wyck Street in Chiswick, a Jewish family who had been bankers in London for close to two... |
| Health | Eliza Fenwick | EF
described herself to Mary Hays
as deaf, short-sighted, toothless, and overweight. Fenwick, Eliza, and Mary Hays. The Fate of the Fenwicks. Editor Wedd, Annie F., Methuen. 232 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fenwick | The surviving record of his birth, witnessed by Mary Hays
and Henrietta Braddock
, was transcribed in 1807, the year that his mother was trying to get him a place in one of the free... |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | EF
was well known to many of the English radicals of the 1790s: besides those already mentioned, she knew Charlotte Smith
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
. Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press. 72 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Eliza Fenwick | |
| Textual Production | Ann Batten Cristall | George Dyer
suggested that ABC
and Mary Hays
should collaborate on a poetical novel. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon. 111 |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Batten Cristall | ABC
may have met the poet George Dyer
through her brother; Dyer visited at Joshua's London lodgings and had a platonic affection for Elizabeth Cristall, who was living with her brother around 1795. Roget, John Lewis. A History of the Old Water-Colour Society. Longmans, Green. 1:190, 189 |
| Publishing | Ann Batten Cristall | Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld
and her brother
, Ann Jebb
, the future Amelia Opie
, Anna Maria Porter
, Mary Wollstonecraft
and her sister, Mary Hays
and her sister, a Mrs Spence who... |
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