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.
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.
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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...
Education
Fanny Holcroft
FH
's upbringing was purposely and radically progressive. Eliza Fenwick
's intention of bringing her own children up without belief in God was shaken when she found herself disgusted & shocked at the blind, coarse...