Mary Hays manuscript material : 35 items, 1779-1807

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Mary Hays manuscript material : 35 items, 1779-1807

The Mary Hays manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of 26 letters to the philosopher and novelist William Godwin; 7 letters to the writer and translator William Tooke; 1 letter to an unidentified recipient; and a manuscript volume containing a hand-copied 102 letter chain of corrrespondence between Hays and John Eccles, her fiancé who died weeks before their planned marriage. All items are published in Marilyn L. Brooks's edition of Mary Hays's letters.

35 items

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SNAC Resource ID: 7392458

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Godwin, William, 1756-1836

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William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. In the conservative reaction to British radicalism, Godwin was attacked, in part because of his marriage to the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and his candid biography of her after her death from childbirth. Their daughter, later known as Mary Shelley, would go on to writ...

Hays, Mary, 1759 or 1760-1843

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Mary Hays, English writer. From the description of Mary Hays manuscript material : 35 items, 1779-1807 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 373526721 From the guide to the Mary Hays manuscript material : 36 items, 1779-1807, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) ...

Eccles, John, d. 1780.

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Tooke, William, 1744-1820

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