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Victim of Prejudice

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ISBN-10: 1551112175

ISBN-13: 9781551112176

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Mary Hays, Eleanor Ty, Edward Moore, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft Sheley

List price: $21.95
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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…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 10/30/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Eleanor Ty is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.