1st Edition

Mary Hays's 'Female Biography' Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism

Edited By Mary Spongberg, Gina Luria Walker Copyright 2019
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

The essays included in Mary Hays’s ‘Female Biography’: Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism emerge from the authors’ collaboration in producing the first modern edition of Hays’s work in the Chawton House Library Edition (2013, 2014). This book explores Hays’s larger ambitions to lay the foundation for an encyclopaedic work by, for, and about women. The scholars’ contributions to this... Read more

Introduction  1. "I Sought & Made to Myself an Extraordinary Destiny"  2. The Trial(s) of Queen Caroline and Hays’s Memoirs of Queens, Illustrious and Celebrated  3. The Turbulent Seas of Cultural Sisterhood: French Connections in Mary Hays’s Female Biography (1803)  4. Lost in Translation: Mary Hays Reads Heloise  5. The Spanish Monarchy in Mary Hays’s Biographical Works  6. Mary Hays’s Female Biography: Feminist Remix  7. Rioting in Intellectual Luxury: The Innovations and Influence of Mary Hays’s "Catherine Macaulay Graham"   8. "The Very Worst Woman I Ever Heard of": Rosina Bulwer Lytton and Biography as Vindication  9. "Women’s Writing on Women’s Writing": Mayy Ziyada’s Literary Biographies as Egyptian Feminist History

Biography



Mary Spongberg is Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research at Southern Cross University, Australia.



Gina Luria Walker is Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of The New Historia at The New School, New York City, USA.