The Victim of Prejudice

ISBN: 1551112175

Author: Mary Hays

Condition: New

Mary Hays was an outspoken Radical intellectual in the turbulent decade of the 1790s. 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 womens confinement becomes real as the heroines worst nightmares, her horrors and sense of helplessness become a physical reality.The Victim of Prejudice is of great interest for its strong feminist content, and it is both powerful and moving as a literary work; this edition makes this important late eighteenth-century text again available to a wide readership.