ABSTRACT
Mary Hays worked alone in compiling the 302 entries that make up Female Biography (1803). By contrast, producing a modern, critical edition of the work relied on the expertise of 168 scholars across 18 countries. Essays in this collection focus on the exhaustive research, editorial challenges and innovative responses involved in this project.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|18 pages
Editor’s introduction
part II|52 pages
Forgotten women
chapter 2|18 pages
Mary Hays and learned women in the Renaissance
The cases of Isabella de Rosares and Isabella de Josa
part III|71 pages
Omissions and revisions
chapter 6|19 pages
Mary Hays’s invisible women
Manuscript poetry and the practice of life-writing in Ann Yerbury (1729–1754)
part IV|98 pages
Female Biography and the feminist history tradition
part V|32 pages
Contemporary uses of Female Biography
chapter 13|14 pages
I wish that I could have known before
Female Biography and feminist epistemologies
