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Mary Hays - Memoirs of Emma Courtney

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In November of 1795, after William Godwin requested a sketch of Mary Hays life, she arrived at the idea of Memoirs of Emma Courtney. Godwin followed up his request with a hint that a fictional exploration of the painful experience she had undergone in her relationship with William Frend might help her to come to terms with it. It was to be an instructive rather than self indulgent work. The resulting novel is one of the most interesting and important explorations of gender-related issues of the time. Emma is exposed to a series of situationsmotherlessness, orphanhood, poverty, dependence, and morewhich encourage her to reflect on the inequalities of society, the source of every misery and vice, and on the peculiar disadvanteges of my sex. The novel quickly became viewed as a scandalous disrobing in public but is has endured as much on the basis of its readability as on its pointed social commentary.

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title:Memoirs of Emma Courtney Broadview Literary Texts
author:Hays, Mary.; Brooks, Marilyn L.
publisher:Broadview Press
isbn10 | asin:1551111551
print isbn13:9781551111551
ebook isbn13:9780585236490
language:English
subjectWomen--Social conditions--18th century--Fiction.
publication date:2000
lcc:PR4769.H12
ddc:823.6
subject:Women--Social conditions--18th century--Fiction.
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Memoirs of Emma Courtney
Mary Hays
edited by Marilyn L. Brooks
Page 4 2000 Marilyn L Brooks All rights reserved The use of any part of - photo 2
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2000 Marilyn L. Brooks All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher or in the case of photocopying, a licence from CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency) One Yonge Street, Suite 1900, Toronto, on M5E IE5 is an infringement of the copyright law.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Hays, Mary, 1759 or 601843
Memoirs of Emma Courtney
(Broadview literary texts)
ISBN 1-55111-155-1 (softcover) 1-55111-314-7 (hardcover)
I. Brooks, Marilyn L. II.Title. III. Series.
PR4769.H12M4 1999 823.7 C99-930434-8
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
6
Introduction
7
Mary Hays: A Brief Chronology
30
A Note on the Text
33
Memoirs of Emma Courtney
35
Appendix A: Selections from the Mary Hays and William Godwin Correspondence
223
Appendix B: Selected Letters of William Frend
257
Appendix C: Articles by Hays in the Monthly Magazine
261
Appendix D: Reviews of Memoirs of Emma Courtney
292
Appendix E
1. On Sensibility
302
2. On Melancholy
317
Appendix F: The Anti-Jacobin Backlash
319
Appendix G: Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Hays
333
Appendix H: Obituary of Mary Wollstonecraft
335
Select Bibliography
337

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful to the Open University for granting me research leave to prepare this edition and for financial assistance to enable me to examine the original edition and related manuscript material in New York. I am indebted to the Trustees of Dr Daniel Williams for granting me permission to quote from letters to and from Henry Crabb Robinson and to reproduce William Frend's letter "To Eusebia" held in Dr Williams's Library, London. I am also grateful to the Syndics of Cambridge University Library for permission to reproduce William Frend's letter to his sister, and to The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley & His Circle, The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations for permitting me to reproduce letters from the Hays/Godwin correspondence.
I have received invaluable comments and assistance from colleagues and friends. In particular I would like to mention Graham Allen, Gwen Andrews, Mike Bartholomew, John McDonald, Tim Meldrum, Chris Smith, and William St Clair.
I would like also to acknowledge the support and patient encouragement given me by Don LePan and Stephen Calloway.
Finally, I dedicate this edition to Alan, whose unflagging support and encouragement sustained me during this project.
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