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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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T114712



London : printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796. 2v. ; 12° ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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she's okay until she tangles with Burke
Mary Hays, an early British feminist writers, was a contemporary of Mary Wollstonecraft, WilliamGodwin, Thomas Paine, and William Blake, and like them she was excited by the French Revolutionand the prospect of toppling the privileged classes.Of course, at that time all men were comparativelyprivileged, at least as compared to women.In The Victim of Prejudice she mounts a twin attack onthe lowly status of women within society and on the exalted status of the landed gentry, who stilldominated life in that pre-industrial age.The former attack is fairly successful, the latter is not.

Mary Raymond, the heroine of the novel, is orphaned at an early age, but is raised and well-educated(perhaps too well for the time) by her guardian, Mr. Raymond.Two brothers, sons of the HonorableMr. Pelham, come to Mr. Raymond's for instruction too, and Mary falls in love with William Pelham,and he with her.But Mary is an unacceptable match for such a wealthy youth, more unacceptable thanshe realizes until Mr. Raymond reluctantly reveals the sordid circumstances of her birth, and so theyoung lovers are separated.

Meanwhile, Sir Peter Osborne, the brutal local landowner, has taken a fancy to Mary and is reluctantto accept her protestations of his advances.In a symbol laden early scene, William coaxes the teenageMary into stealing some "forbidden fruit" from Osborne's vineyard.But he catches her and expels herfrom the garden, calling her "a true daughter of Eve."In the ensuing years they have several moreequally unfortunate encounters, with Osborne becoming ever more determined to have her.Finally,after the death of Mr. Raymond, who had tried to get her to accept a more appropriate marriage offerto no avail, has left Mary particularly vulnerable, with no money and nowhere to go, Osborne kidnapsand rapes her.

At this point William returns to the scene and finds Mary wandering, broken and ill.Though by nowmarried to another, he nurses her back to health.But when he proposes that she become his mistress,the outraged Mary refuses and flees.She tries to find employment several places but finds that herreputation as a fallen woman, resulting not merely from the incident with Osborne but from her timewith the married William, follows her, causing scandal and encouraging other men to be forward withher.

Throughout these various travails, she remains admirably loyal to the moral upbringing which Mr.Raymond provided :

'Let it come then!' exclaimed I with fervour; 'Let my ruin be complete! Disgrace, indigence, contempt, while unmerited, I dare encounter, but not the censure of my own heart.Dishonour, death itself, is a calamity less insupportable than self-reproach.Amidst the destruction of my hopes, the wreck of my fortunes, of my fame, my spirit still triumphs in conscious rectitude; nor would I, intolerable as is the sense of my wrongs and of my griefs, exchange them for all that guilty prosperity could bestow.'

but is quite annoyingly passive in the face of these injustices :

I revolved in my mind, selected, and rejected, as new obstacles occurred to me, a variety of plans. Difficulties almost insuperable, difficulties peculiar to my sex, my age, and my unfortunate situation, opposed themselves to my efforts on every side.I sought only the bare means of subsistence: amidst the luxuriant and the opulent, who surrounded me, I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

Somehow this ambition--mere existence-- just seems inadequate.More appropriate, particularly aslong as her life is ruined anyway, would be to wreak a horrific vengeance on the reprehensible LordPeter.But as the rather unfortunate title of the book indicates, this is a story about unrelentingvictimization.And because Mary never really seeks to do more than exist, never even seeks redressagainst Osborne, she somehow makes herself a participant in her own victimization.

A system which would punish the victim rather than the rapist is so obviously unjust, that the purelyfeminist angle of the story does work to a degree.However, Osborne is so awful that it is hard toaccept him as a genuinely representative figure of the British aristocracy.Eleanor Ty, editor of theBroadview Text edition of the book, suggests in her introduction that the character Osborne is intendedas a specific rebuke to Edmund Burke and his conservative views on the value of ancient institutionslike the aristocracy.Though I'm a fan of Burke, there are coherent arguments to be made inopposition to his theories : this is not one.

The book works well enough as a kind of Gothic thriller, and is adequate as a protofeminist tract, butit fails as a radical polemic against the prevailing institutions of the time.The existence of one evilfictional nobleman doesn't serve to turn 18th Century Britain into a den of horrors.

GRADE : C+

More on the Wrongs of Woman in the 18th century
Mary Hays's "The Victim of Prejudice" is the story of MaryRaymond, a young woman, who, from birth, seems destined to suffer.The'prejudice' of the title consists of unfair societal standards that excludeall but the wealthy, well-born, and influential.Mary is raised by herguardian, Mr. Raymond, on a small estate in the country, where he teachesher far more than any woman of her class and birth is expected to know bysociety.

From her youth, Mary is tormented and pursued by Sir PeterOsborne - a depraved example of the type of man Raymond warns Mary aboutthat are out in the world.At Raymond's death, Mary is thrown out intothat world to fend for herself, and the virtues and knowledge taught her byher guardian are all put to the test.

Like Mary Wollstonecraft'sunfinished novel "Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman," Hays shortnovel is a work meant to display feminist indignation at the treatment ofwomen in the late 18th century.Also like Wollstonecraft, Haysappropriates some of the motifs of gothic fiction to underscore the extremeevils that men, law, and society are allowed to perpetrate against women. "The Victim of Prejudice" can tend toward melodrama, but is animportant text of early British feminism and illustrates the domestic andpersonal concerns of the female Romantics. ... Read more

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From the supplier: Commercial property purchases need not result in all of the property falling under the 39-year depreciation rule. It is possible to allocate a higher percentage of the purchase price to depreciable assets, depreciate some land improvements and what one might normally think of as tangible personal property, and expense property under section 179.Applicable IRS regulations, revenue rulings, and court cases are discussed.

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Title: Women's historiography and the (dis)embodiment of law: Ann Yearsley, Mary Hays, Elizabeth Benger.
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Volume: 2Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough StreetPublication date: 1878Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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London : printed for J. Johnson, 1799. 2v. ; 12° ... Read more

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Volume: 1Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough StreetPublication date: 1878Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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London : printed for T. Knott, 1793. xii,260p. ; 8° ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Mary Hays Weik, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 476 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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Volume: 3Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough StreetPublication date: 1878Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Subtitle: A Brief Biography, With Critical Notes, a Few Documents, Hitherto Unpublished, and an ItineraryGeneral Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1898Original Publisher: Hodder and StoughtonSubjects: Biography ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 4; Original Publisher: Printed for Richard Phillips; Publication date: 1803; Subjects: Women; Biography ... Read more

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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000  titles available  (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as  Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.

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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."Ê Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000Ê titles availableÊ (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such asÊ Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.

Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website. ... Read more