- unitid
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{"value"=>"19618", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Pforz MS", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b18062358", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1779-1807", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1779/1807"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Mary Hays manuscript material"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"36 items", "unit"=>"items"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Mary Hays was an English novelist active in London radical and dissenting circles at the end of the eighteenth century. The collection consists primarily of correspondence dating between 1779 and 1807."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Hays, Mary, 1759-1843", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Mary Hays, English novelist. Hays was a protégée of both the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the philosopher and novelist William Godwin. Perhaps best known for her semi-autobiographical <em>Memoirs of Emma Courtney</em>, Hays also wrote children's books and <em>Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women</em> (1798), a pamphlet arguing against the Biblical justifications of sexism.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>This guide lists and describes manuscript material held by the Pforzheimer Collection that was created by Mary Hays. Most of this material was purchased in the 1970s from Jill Organ (later Hansen) of Islington. Organ's friend, Anne F. Wedd, was Hays's great-grandniece and first twentieth-century editor, and had left Organ the manuscripts upon her death in 1958. Since the 1986 move of the Pforzheimer Collection to the New York Public Library, over half a dozen Hays letters have been accessioned. Because the Pforzheimer Collection collects actively, its holdings in Mary Hays manuscript material may grow in the future as items become available for acquisition.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Mary Hays manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of letters to the philosopher and novelist William Godwin, letters to the writer and translator William Tooke, and a bound volume containing a manuscript copy of 102 letters between Hays and John Eccles. Also held is Hays's copy of Wollstonecraft's <em>Vindication of the Rights of Woman</em> (1792); many pages contain light penciled annotations, some of which may be in the hand of Hays.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Mary Hays manuscript material is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/19618#c1763080'>Series I: Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1779-1807</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/19618#c1763120'>Series II: Books owned and inscribed by Hays</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Mary Hays manuscript material is arranged in two series: Series I. Correspondence Series II. Books owned and inscribed by Hays</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Finding aid created by <span class=\"name\">Charles Cuykendall</span> Carter in <span class=\"date\">2013</span>. Revised and uploaded to ArchivesSpace in October <span class=\"date\">2024</span> by <span class=\"name\">Timothy Gress</span>.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>In addition to manuscript letters by Mary Hays, the Pforzheimer Collection holds a considerable number of letters addressed to Hays, including some by William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Aikin, and several of Hays's family members. Also held are of a number of Hays's early printed editions, including a copy of her <em>Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women</em> (1798), a copy of her six-volume <em>Female Biography</em> (1803), and a copy of her first book for children, <em>Harry Clinton</em> (1804).</p>"}
- note
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{"type"=>"reference", "value"=>"All of the items listed in Series I. Correspondence have been published in The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn L. Brooks (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004) and are listed with reference."}
- date_start
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1779
- keydate
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1779
- date_end
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1807
- date_inclusive_start
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1779
- date_inclusive_end
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1807
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Mary Hays manuscript material, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}