The Victim of Prejudice - Softcover

Hays, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551112175 ISBN 13: 9781551112176

Publisher: Broadview Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher

The Broadview Literary Texts series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, though lesser-known literature.

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1551112175
• ISBN 13: 9781551112176
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Ty Eleanor