Mary had little education, a situation she set out to remedy by continuing self-improvement and also through her friendships with educated men. After the death of her beloved mentor John Eccles
she put in a...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Hays
The premature death of her mentor and fiancé John Eccles
plunged MH
into widowhood.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Luria, Gina M. “Mary Hays’s Letters and Manuscripts”. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol.
3
, No. 21, 1977, pp. 524-30.
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Texts
Hays, Mary, and John, d. 1780 Eccles. The Love Letters of Mary Hays (1779-1780). Editor Wedd, Annie F., Methuen, 1925.