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In 1803 Mary Hays reinvented ‘female biography’, including in her groundbreaking work actors, courtesans, warriors, and various scandalous women alongside the queens, martyrs, and virtuous women who had conventionally been included in women’s biographies. Hays brought together and to life three hundred bustling, rebellious women in six volumes, making the best use of the print technology available to her to reach a female audience eager to be inspired and informed through the new genre of biography/autobiography. Pickering & Chatto will publish the Chawton House Library Edition of Female Biography as part of their “Memoirs of Women Writers Series”, Volumes 1-3 in 2013 and Volumes 4-6 in 2014.
Professor Gina Luria Walker, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at New School University, has undertaken to give Hays and her “female biographies” the attention and recognition they merit. Rather than simply annotating the text from a single scholar’s viewpoint, she has created a collaborative feminist effort in which scholars expert in the individual figures included in Female Biography will enrich Mary Hays’s pioneering six volumes. The project currently includes 125 scholars and 30 researchers representing 93 institutions in 14 countries and four continents.
If you would like information about how to join us in producing the Chawton House Library Edition of Female Biography, please contact: Margaret Staruszkiewicz, Academic Administrator, femalebiographyrproject2@gmail.com
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