
Victim of Prejudice - Second Edition
by Mary Hays
Title:
Victim of Prejudice - Second Edition
Author:
Mary Hays
Edited by:
Ty, Eleanor
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
260 pages
Publisher:
Broadview Press Ltd
ISBN-13:
9781551112176
EAN:
9781551112176
Publication Date:
09/10/1998
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
490
Dimensions (mm):
216 x 153 x 16
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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.












