Gina Luria Walker
Ashgate
Hardback
304
2006
Gina Luria Walker's intellectual history of Mary Hays makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist thinker who advanced notions of tolerance that included women an educator who broke new ground for female autodidacts a philosophical commentator who translated Enlightenment ideas for a burgeoning female audience a Dissenting historiographer who reinvented 'female biography ' and a writer of deliberately experimental fiction including the roman ? clef Memoirs of Emma Courtney.
Ashgate
Hardback
304
2006
Gina Luria Walker's intellectual history of Mary Hays makes the case for her importance as an innovator. She was a feminist thinker who advanced notions of tolerance that included women an educator who broke new ground for female autodidacts a philosophical commentator who translated Enlightenment ideas for a burgeoning female audience a Dissenting historiographer who reinvented 'female biography ' and a writer of deliberately experimental fiction including the roman ? clef Memoirs of Emma Courtney.