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Description
Mary Hays (1759-1843) was an English novelist active in London radical and dissenting circles at the end of the eighteenth century. The collection consists primarily of correspondence dating between 1779 and 1807.
Names
Hays, Mary, 1759-1843 (Creator)
Eccles, John, 1755-1780 (Addressee)
Godwin, William, 1756-1836 (Addressee)
Hays, Mary, 1759-1843 (Author)
Tooke, William, 1744-1820 (Addressee)
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 (Associated name)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1779 - 1807
Library locations
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz MS
Topics
Authors, English -- 18th century
Authors, English -- 19th century
Genres
Correspondence
Books
Notes
Biographical/historical: Mary Hays, English novelist. Hays was a protégée of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the anarchist philosopher William Godwin. Perhaps best known for her semi-autobiographical Memoirs of Emma Courtney, Hays also wrote children's books and Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in behalf of Women (1798), a pamphlet arguing against the Biblical justifications of sexism.
Content: The Mary Hays manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of 26 letters to the philosopher and novelist William Godwin; 7 letters to the writer and translator William Tooke; 1 letter to an unidentified recipient; and a bound volume containing a manuscript copy of 102 letters between Hays and John Eccles. Also held is Hays's copy of Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Many pages contain light penciled annotations, some of which may be in the hand of Hays.
Citation/reference: All of the items listed in Series I. Correspondence have been published in The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn L. Brooks (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004) and are listed with reference.
Physical Description
Extent: 36 items
Type of Resource
Text
Identifiers
Other local Identifier: Pforz MS
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b18062358
MSS Unit ID: 19618
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9339b2c0-7de3-013d-9e45-0242ac110003
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