Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Ann Jebb | George Dyer
warmly praised AJ
in his poem On Liberty, which appeared in his Poems of 1792. Since he also praised Wollstonecraft
's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Charlotte Smith
,... |
| Publishing | Mary Lamb | Mary Lamb
's essay entitled On Needle-Work appeared in print in the British Lady's Magazine under the name of Sempronia (which was probably borrowed from the feminist Mary Hays
). Aaron, Jane. A Double Singleness. Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press. 52n2 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Other Life Event | Mary Wollstonecraft | Response to her death began with Mary Hays
's passionate eulogy in the Monthly Magazine that very month. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin. 287 |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Strickland | ES
duly began writing for children and editing a periodical, but this was a temporary measure. They formed the intention of publishing historical memoirs or biographies. (Both biography collections and the memoir as a new... |
| names | Mary Lamb | The pseudonym, not an obvious choice among classical womens' names, probably comes from a character in Mary Hays
's Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous, published by 1793. Aaron, Jane. A Double Singleness. Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press. 52n2 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Catharine Macaulay | CM
thought of writing a history of the American War of Independence. According to Mary Hays
in Female Biography, she possessed materials communicated to her by Washington
himself, but that the decline in her... |
| Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Vindication provoked a storm of comment and replies, in reviews (the Monthly was respectful both of her project and its execution, but the Critical, though its review was long and detailed, was scathingly... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Fenwick | Secresy had six reviews in 1795; EF
wrote much later that they blamed the principles but commended the style & Imagination. Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press. 71 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | Among modern scholars, Duncan Isles
called this the fullest and probably most reliable biography, and Susan Carlile
regrets that it has not been more used. Carlile, Susan. “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennox’s Age and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Life of Harriot Stuart</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Novel, edited by Albert J. Rivero and George Justice, Vol. 4 , pp. 103-37. 110 |
| Literary responses | Anne Grant | Letters from the Mountains was not noticed in the Edinburgh Review, an omission which Grant attributed to gender prejudice. Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-43. 32 |
| Literary responses | Alicia Tyndal Palmer | William Gifford
panned this novel in the Quarterly. He ridiculed ATP
's grasp of history and geography, and her overestimate of the cultural influence of English governesses. He presents the novel as a tedious... |
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