· Memoirs of Emma Courtney () is a novel by English writer and feminist Mary Hays. Inspired by events from her own life, as well as by her acquaintance with radical political philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Hays’s novel received mixed reviews and was controversial for its representation of female sexuality, adultery, infanticide, and suicide.2/5(1). Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback – J. by. Mary Hays (Author) › Visit Amazon's Mary Hays Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author/5(23). · The Project Gutenberg EBook of Memoirs of Emma Courtney, by Mary Hays This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Title:: Memoirs of Emma Courtney: Author:: Hays, Mary, Note: 2 volumes in 1; New York: Printed for Hugh Griffith, Link: page images at Google. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. Mary Hays English novelist, essayist, and biographer. Memoirs of Emma Courtney (). She continued to produce feminist pieces for the Monthly Magazine, and completed a second novel.
Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback – J. by. Mary Hays (Author) › Visit Amazon's Mary Hays Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Mary Hays wrote in the decade of the s, a period of intense creative flowering in England. Writing in a period enshrined to the works of the canonical Wordsworth and Coleridge, Hays explored through her Jacobinical novel, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney, the contentious relationship between self and society. Like other Jacobin women writers - Elizabeth Inchbald, Charlotte Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft - Mary Hays too used her novel to explode the insidious connection between education and. Mary Hays’s The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and Mary Shelley’s Mathilda. In , Mary Hays published The Memoirs of Emma Courtney, a transparently autobiographical account of her unconsummated passion for William Frend and her relationship with William Godwin. A couple of decades later, Godwin’s daughter, Mary Shelley wrote a similarly autobiographical novella called Mathilda which also featured a fictionalized Godwin figure.
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