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The Columbia History of the British NovelHardy gave up writing fiction late in life and devoted himself to poetry. Mary Hays (1 760 -1843) The daughter of Rational Dissenters, Hays was born in Southwark, London. Much of her education came through her correspondence with John Eccles, after whose death she began to write poetry and fiction. In the 1790s she began to find her voice as a feminist, keeping company with Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. With the help of Godwin she published Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796), which was followed by A Victim of Prejudice (1799). She was also the author of Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of the Women (1798) and Female Biography (1803). Eliza Haywood (1693? -1756) Both an actress and a prolific writer of novels, Haywood in Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (1725) imitated the scandal chronicles of Delariviere Manley, and achieved considerable fame with a steady stream of amatory fictions in the 1720s, notably Love in Excess (1720). In the wake of Richardson's and Fielding's success, she produced her most accomplished novels, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751) and The History of Jenny and Jemmy Jessamy (1753) ...» |
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