Mary Hays, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Lexicographer at the Service of “the Female World”
The English reformist writer Mary Hays published a compilation of women’s biographies entitled Female Biography (1803), with the aim at providing other women with examples to emulate. she intended not only to convey her deepest convictions about women’s capacities and abilities, but also to leave h...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2018-11-01
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Series: | ELOPE |
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Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/7539 |