Mary Hays | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Mary Hays.

Mary Hays | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Mary Hays.
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SOURCE: Pollin, Burton R. “Mary Hays on Women's Rights in the Monthly Magazine.Etudes Anglaises 24, no. 3 (July-September 1971): 271-82.

In the following essay, Pollin examines Hays's contributions to the late eighteenth-century reform movement in the form of letters and essays she produced for the Monthly Magazine.

While sifting the earliest issues of the Monthly Magazine for references to William Godwin, I was struck by the frequent mention of his name in the letters to the editor, from February 1796 through September 1797, chiefly on the subject of women's rights and education1. The series included several signed “M. H.” and terminated with one signed by Godwin's friend, Mary Hays. Two of the very few studies of this ardent and curious suffragette, I discovered, mentioned her contributing to a “controversy on Helvétius” under these initials, but failed to examine or even identify the printed articles2. They obviously relied for their information upon...

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