Memoirs Of Emma Courtney The Original Classic Edition

Author : Mary Hays
Publisher : Tebbo
Page : 92 pages
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Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1486490182

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Memoirs of Emma Courtney - the Original Classic Edition by Mary Hays Pdf

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Memoirs of Emma Courtney. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Mary Hays, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Memoirs of Emma Courtney in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Memoirs of Emma Courtney: Look inside the book: In delineating the character of Emma Courtney, I had not in view these fantastic models: I meant to represent her, as a human being, loving virtue while enslaved by passion, liable to the mistakes and weaknesses of our fragile nature.-Let those readers, who feel inclined to judge with severity the extravagance and eccentricity of her conduct, look into their own hearts; and should they there find no record, traced by an accusing spirit, to soften the asperity of their censures-yet, let them bear in mind, that the errors of my heroine were the offspring of sensibility; and that the result of her hazardous experiment is calculated to operate as a warning, rather than as an example.-The philosopher-who is not ignorant, that light and shade are more powerfully contrasted in minds rising above the common level; that, as rank weeks take strong root in a fertile soil, vigorous powers not unfrequently produce fatal mistakes and pernicious exertions; that character is the produce of a lively and constant affection-may, possibly, discover in these Memoirs traces of reflection, and of some attention to the phaenomena of the human mind. ...Rash young man -why do you tear from my heart the affecting narrative, which I had hoped no cruel necessity would ever have forced me to review?-Why do you oblige me to recall the bitterness of my past life, and to renew images, the remembrance of which, even at this distant period, harrows up my soul with inconceivable misery?-But your happiness is at stake, and every selfish consideration vanishes.-Dear and sacred deposit of an adored and lost friend -for whose sake I have consented to hold down, with struggling, suffocating reluctance, the loathed and bitter portion of existence;-shall I expose your ardent mind to the incessant conflict between truth and error-shall I practise the disingenuousness, by which my peace has been blasted-shall I suffer you to run the wild career of passion-shall I keep back the recital, written upon my own mind in characters of blood, which may preserve the child of my affections from destruction

Author : Mary Hays
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513275994

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Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays Pdf

Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) is a novel by English writer and feminist Mary Hays. Inspired by events from her own life, as well as by her acquaintance with radical political philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Hays’s novel received mixed reviews and was controversial for its representation of female sexuality, adultery, infanticide, and suicide. Modern critics and readers, however, have recognized the novel as a groundbreaking work of feminist fiction. In a series of letters to her adopted son Augustus Harley, Emma Courtney reveals the tragic details of her life. Young and in love with Augustus’s father, Courtney dreamed of marrying him and starting a family. Despite their true connection, Harley is unable to marry—his continued income is only guaranteed, he claims, if he remains a bachelor. Meanwhile, a man named Mr. Montague promises Courtney a life of safety and financial stability if she will agree to marry him, which, after learning that Harley has secretly been married all along, she does. Heartbroken, Courtney settles for a life with her new husband, and raising her daughter becomes her only cause for passion. When she realizes the extent of Mr. Montague’s dishonesty, however, she struggles to reconcile her former sense of individuality with the life she has been forced to live. When Harley suddenly reappears, however, feelings from the past return that threaten to flood Courtney’s heart and overturn what stability she thought had been her own. Memoirs of Emma Courtney is an epistolary novel exploring themes of desire, inequality, and the love that transcends the values and bonds of society. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Mary Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Mary Hays
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243396201

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Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays Pdf

Excerpt from Memoirs of Emma Courtney: Two Volumes in One It has commonly been the bulinel's of li tion to pourtray characters, not as they really cxiii, but, as, we are told, they ought to be - a fort at itle. Perfection, in which nature and pallion a: e melted away, and jarring attributes wonder. T'ully combined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0461717182

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Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Hays
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1802
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074864178

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Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays Pdf

Author : Mary Hays
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:731612422

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Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays Pdf

Author : Mary Hays
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1909735892

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Memoirs of Emma Courtney - an 18th Century Feminist Classic (Aziloth Books) by Mary Hays Pdf

Mary Hays was born in 1759 into a middle class family in the London borough of Southwark. An independent spirit, at the age of 32 she was given a copy of Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', and immediately became a convert to its proto-feminist philosophy. Writing under the pseudonym 'Eusebia', Hays published extensively, and was introduced to the reformer William Frend, a meeting which, for Hays, soon blossomed into something more than mere friendship. Against all contemporary social mores, Hays confessed her love to William Frend in explicit terms - but was summarily rebuffed. She nevertheless continued to pursue the object of her desires via letters and meetings, but with no more success (Frend married Sara Blackburne in 1808). Bitterly disappointed, Hays channeled her feelings into 'Memoirs of Emma Courtney', a semi-autobiographical novel that, like Hays herself, broke all the rules. Her heroine Emma falls in love with the handsome, enigmatic Augustus, but for reasons that he will never fully explain, Augustus refuses to return her affection. Emma will not be denied and, feeling her love to be pure, and her desires likewise, she lays bare to Augustus the innermost feelings of her heart, in terms that offended every Victorian value on 'appropriate' female conduct. Even more shocking, most of the missives in the novel were taken verbatim from Mary Hays' own explicit letters to William Frend. The book was execrated in many quarters as being 'in all points reprehensible, in the highest degree'. Even then, not everyone agreed, and modern-day critics have hailed 'Emma' as a pioneering work of feminist literature. On one level it is a simple tale of romance, of passion and ultimately (when Emma discovers, too late, Augustus' true feelings for her) of tragedy. But at the same time the book exposes a deeper tragedy: the lack of female education, the denial of female sexuality, and the 'criminal' curtailment of their potential.

Author : Mary Hays
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : England
ISBN : OCLC:469154823

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Memoirs of Emma Courtney by Mary Hays Pdf

Author : Mary Hays
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015034428915

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Emma Courtney by Mary Hays Pdf

Author : Lorna Sage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521668131

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The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English by Lorna Sage Pdf

An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.

Author : Anita Auer,Victorina González-Díaz,Jane Hodson,Violeta Sotirova
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266682

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Linguistics and Literary History by Anita Auer,Victorina González-Díaz,Jane Hodson,Violeta Sotirova Pdf

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive and interpretative levels. This unique combination makes this volume on historical stylistics an important work for international scholars and postgraduate students working on the interface between literary history and language change, both from corpus-based and qualitative perspectives. The chapters written by leading scholars in these various fields are an appropriate reference work for teaching and research purposes in the areas of stylistics, historical linguistics, English language and literature, corpus linguistics and literary history.

Author : Terry MacKinnell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781456844424

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The Dawning by Terry MacKinnell Pdf

The Dawning is a radically different and innovative approach to the astrological ages including the Age of Aquarius -providing a fascinating insight into past ages, our current turbulent times, and what might be in store for our world over the next few thousand years! Terry MacKinnell takes us on a journey into the astrological ages and with periscopic detail presents an entertaining and thought-provoking read that challenges astrological assumptions. MacKinnell proposes that an oversight made by the ancients inadvertently impacted conventional astrological calculations and he explores the popular belief that the Age of Aquarius has already arrived when according to conventional astrology it is not due for many centuries to come. He argues that the real Aquarian Age has indeed already arrived and did so in the 15th Century, the same century historians claim as the beginning of modernity. Continuing the journey he dives into our present and our future. This fascinating book will appeal to astrologers, archeo-astronomers, historians and everyone looking for a new perspective on the past, the present and the future.

Author : Karen Cherro Quiñones
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541542754

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Theodosia Burr by Karen Cherro Quiñones Pdf

"This book for young adult readers discusses the life of Theodora Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, and her involvement in the lives of the Founding Fathers of the new United States. The book includes primary source observations pulled from Theodora's personal letters and other writings."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada Imprints
ISBN : 00688398

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Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charlotte Gordon
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812980479

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Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book—until now. In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Romantic visionary who gave the world Frankenstein—two courageous women who should have shared their lives, but instead shared a powerful literary and feminist legacy. In 1797, less than two weeks after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft died, and a remarkable life spent pushing against the boundaries of society’s expectations for women came to an end. But another was just beginning. Wollstonecraft’s daughter Mary was to follow a similarly audacious path. Both women had passionate relationships with several men, bore children out of wedlock, and chose to live in exile outside their native country. Each in her own time fought against the injustices women faced and wrote books that changed literary history. The private lives of both Marys were nothing less than the stuff of great Romantic drama, providing fabulous material for Charlotte Gordon, an accomplished historian and a gifted storyteller. Taking readers on a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Victorian England, she seamlessly interweaves the lives of her two protagonists in alternating chapters, creating a book that reads like a richly textured historical novel. Gordon also paints unforgettable portraits of the men in their lives, including the mercurial genius Percy Shelley, the unbridled libertine Lord Byron, and the brilliant radical William Godwin. “Brave, passionate, and visionary, they broke almost every rule there was to break,” Gordon writes of Wollstonecraft and Shelley. A truly revelatory biography, Romantic Outlaws reveals the defiant, creative lives of this daring mother-daughter pair who refused to be confined by the rigid conventions of their era. Praise for Romantic Outlaws “[An] impassioned dual biography . . . Gordon, alternating between the two chapter by chapter, binds their lives into a fascinating whole. She shows, in vivid detail, how mother influenced daughter, and how the daughter’s struggles mirrored the mother’s.”—The Boston Globe