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Mary Hays
English writer and intellectual
For the woman who fought in the American War of Independence at the Battle of Monmouth, see Mary Hays (American Revolutionary War).
For the American children's book author and activist, see Mary Hays Weik.
Mary Hays | |
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| Born | 4 May London |
| Died | 20 February () (aged&#;83) London |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation(s) | writer, feminist |
| Known&#;for | compiling and editing Female Biography |
Mary Hays (–) was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels and several works on famous (and infamous) women.
She is remembered for her early feminism, and her close relations to dissenting and radical thinkers of her time including Robert Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and William Frend.[1] She was born in , into a family of Protestant dissenters who rejected the practices of the Church of England (the established church).
Hays was described by those who disliked her as 'the baldest