Fenwick, Eliza, and Mary Hays. The Fate of the Fenwicks. Editor Wedd, Annie F., Methuen.
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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | She became friendly both with the conservative Dr
and Mrs Gregory (through her brother) Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 112-3 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton
in the Monthly Review felt it necessary to warn its readers that these letters were really a novel. It also judged the Indian sections far less well done than the English ones. Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. n. ser. 21: 176 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | This was published at Bath and London. EH
did serious historical research for this book, reading all the Roman history she could find in English and even commissioning translations. There was already women's work... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | A more recent generation of feminist scholars has succeeded in locating EH
in the developing tradition of women's fiction. Critic Mary Anne Schofield
has argued that her heroines are feisty feminists. Paula Backscheider
points out... |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Susanna Hopton | As a widow SH
chose to structure her life rather like a member of a religious order. She worshipped God five times a day, with Matins at 4 a.m. even in her old Age, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Hutton | It seems probable that this project was sparked by Mary Hays
's biographical dictionary of women, Memoirs of Queens, Illustrious and Celebrated, which was published, incomplete, in summer 1821. It was still at least... |
| 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
,... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | Her mother then fell ill; Caroline was persuaded that she was to blame and in early September, her parents and husband bore her off to Bessborough House in Kilkenny, Ireland. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 126 |
| 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
). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Aaron, Jane. A Double Singleness. Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press. 52n2 |
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