Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
George Dyer
suggested that ABC
and Mary Hays
should collaborate on a poetical novel.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth Hamilton
Again EH
takes the radicals as her target. The phrase modern philosophers was in common use: the Gentleman's Magazine had turned it on Mary Wollstonecraft in reviewing her first major political work. Yet Hamilton makes...
Wealth and Poverty
Eliza Fenwick
Mary Lamb
's mention, in a context of her own money troubles, of a recent, memorable visit from EF
probably relates to this event. Nearly two years later, on 12 November 1807, Mary Hays
sent...