Family Annals, Or the Sisters - By Mary Hays

List of contents

Table of Contents
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology of Mary Hays
Introduction
Bibliography
Note on the Text
Family Annals, or the Sisters
Illustration
To Mrs Fenwick, of Bridge Town, Barbadoes
Preface
Text of Family Annals
Appendices
Appendix A: On Education
Appendix B: On Economy (Domestic Economy)
Appendix C: On Fashion
Appendix D: Selections from Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees: Or,
Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1723)
Appendix E: Selected Articles by Mary Hays in the Monthly Magazine
Appendix F: Mary Hays’s Novels and Books for Young Persons
Appendix G: Mary Hays’s Review of Jane West’s A Gossip’s Story, and a
Legendary Tale (1796)
Appendix H: Reviews of Family Annals, or the Sisters
Notes

About the author

Li-ching Chen is Associate Professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literature at National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Her research interests focus on women’s writing, intellectual history, conduct literature, and consumption practices in England in the long eighteenth century.

Summary

Family Annals, or the Sisters, Mary Hays's last novel, was originally published in 1817. Accompanied by a new introduction, this title will contribute to various debates about women's education in the nineteenth-century, and will provide a new avenue of research in women's writing.

Product details

• Authors: Li-Ching Chen
• Assisted by: Li-Ching Chen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032059525
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3205952-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Chawton House Library: Women's Novels
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Anthologies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Anthologies (non-poetry)