Memoirs of Emma Courtney

by Hays, Mary; Brooks, Marilyn L.

• ISBN13: 9781551111551
• ISBN10: 1551111551
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

Memoirs of Emma Courtney is one of the most articulate and detailed expressions of the yearnings and frustrations of a woman living in late eighteenth-century English society. It questions marital arrangements and courtship rituals by depicting a woman who actively pursues the man she loves. In this first fully annotated edition of a key sentimental novel, Hays reveals the lamentable gap between "what women are" and "what women ought to be" by exploring the links between sexaulity and desire, and economic and social freedom.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	6	(1)
Introduction	7	(23)
A Brief Chronology	30	(3)
Mary Hays
A Note on the Text	33	(2)
Memoirs of Emma Courtney	35	(188)
Appendix A: Selections from the Mary Hays and William Godwin Correspondence	223	(34)
Appendix B: Selected Letters of William Frend	257	(4)
Appendix C: Articles by Hays in the Monthly Magazine	261	(31)
Appendix D: Reviews of Memoris of Emma Courtney	292	(10)
Appendix E: 1. On Sensibility	302	(17)
2. On Melancholy	317	(2)
Appendix F: The Anti-Jacobin Backlash	319	(14)
Appendix G: Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Hays	333	(2)
Appendix H: Obituary of Mary Wollstonecraft	335	(2)
Select Bibliography	337