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Title: |
The Victim of Prejudice - Second Edition |
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| By (author): |
Mary Hays Edited by: Eleanor Ty |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551112175 : 9781551112176 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
260 |
| Weight: |
.403 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - October 1998 |
| List Price: |
25.75 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
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| Mary Hays was an outspoken Radical intellectual in the turbulent decade of the 1790â 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 â servitude in prostitution.â The Victim of Prejudiceâ Haysâ second novel, first published in 1799â 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 womenâ s confinement becomes real as the heroineâ 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. |
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