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Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft

1797/1798 Subjects: Conduct of life, Women's rights Forms: Biographies Translation Status: Source-text English London URL

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Mary Hays
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The annual necrology, for 1797-8, including, also, various articles of neglected biography
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Vie et mémoires de Marie Wollstonecraft Godwin, auteur de la Défense des droits de la femme, d'une Réponse à Edmond Burck, des Pensées sur l'education des filles: Traduit de l'anglais par le citoyen D*****n translation has paratext

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Source text for translation sometimes wrongly identified as William Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of the Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798). Many thanks to Professor Isabelle Bour for correcting this.

After Mary Wollstonecraft's death in 1797, Mary Hays wrote a warm tribute to her, praising her virtue and bravery, and noting her painful struggle against prejudice. The English Review described her as "the boldest disciple of Mrs Wollstonecraft", and she soon became the target of vilification, sneers and vicious abuse. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, referring to Mary Hays, objected to hearing intellectual ideas issued from the mouth of "a thing, ugly and petticoated."

Hays' 'Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft' appears on pp. 411-460 of The annual necrology for 1797-98 (1800).