The Victim of Prejudice

By:

Mary Hays

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Broadview Editions

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Mary Hays was an outspoken Radical intellectual in the turbulent decade of the 1790's. She argued vehemently for the need to recognise the moral and rational qualities of women, the necessity of a better system of education for girls, and the importance of giving women without fortunes a career without 'servitude in prostitution.' The Victim of Prejudice—Hays' second novel, first published in 1799—is a powerful indictment of man-made institutions such as the courts and legislative systems which favour persons of wealth and rank. In the novel the metaphor of women's confinement becomes real as the heroine's worst nightmares, her horrors and sense of helplessness become a physical reality. The Victim of Prejudice is of great interest for its strong feminist content, and it is both powerful and moving as a literary work; this edition makes this important late eighteenth-century text again available to a wide readership.

Author Biography:

Eleanor Ty is Associate Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published Empowering the Feminine (1999) and Unsex'd Revolutionaries (1993).

Release date Australia

October 30th, 1998

Author

Mary Hays

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Edited by Eleanor Ty

Edition

2nd Revised edition

Pages

260

Series

Broadview Editions

Dimensions

140x216x16

ISBN-13

9781551112176

Product ID

3439655

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