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Anna Barbauld
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Benjamin Flower
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Catharine Cappe
Cursory Remarks
dissenting religious thought
Draws Back
eighteenth-century reform
Enlightenment philosophy
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female autodidacts
Female Biography
feminist historiography
Gainsford Street
Godwin's Memoirs
Godwin’s Memoirs
Hays's Memoir
Hays's Project
Hays's Texts
Hays’s Memoir
Hays’s Project
Hays’s Texts
Hazardous Experiment
Heterodox Dissenters
intellectual history of women in Britain
LCS
Love Letters
Mary Wollstonecraft
Oriental Tale
Progressive Marriage
Rational Dissenting
Vice Versa
Violates
Warrington Academy
Wollstonecraft's Death
Wollstonecraft's Letters
Wollstonecraft’s Death
Wollstonecraft’s Letters
women's intellectual history
Younger Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367893026
- Weight: 417g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2024
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mary Hays, reformist, novelist, and innovative thinker, has been waiting two hundred years to be judged in a fair, scholarly, and comprehensive way. During her lifetime and long after, her role in the ongoing reformist debates in England at the end of the eighteenth century, intensified by the French Revolution, served as a lightening rod for opponents who attacked her controversial stance on women's intellectual competence and human rights. The author's intellectual history of Hays finally makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist thinker who advanced notions of tolerance that included women, an educator who broke new ground for female autodidacts, a philosophical commentator who translated Enlightenment ideas for a burgeoning female audience, a Dissenting historiographer who reinvented 'female biography,' and a writer of deliberately experimental fiction, including the roman à clef Memoirs of Emma Courtney. The author approaches Hays from several disciplinary perspectives-historical, biographical, literary, critical, theological, and political-to elucidate the multiple ways in which Hays contributed and responded to, and influenced and was influenced by, the most significant issues and figures of her time.
Gina Luria Walker is Professor of Women's Studies and Director of The New Historia at the The New School in New York City.
