For more on the life of Mary Hays, click here for her entry in the Biographical Summaries; for the texts of her periodical essays on Helvetius from 1796, click here; for her correspondence with William Godwin, 1794-96, click here; for her correspondence with Eliza Fenwick, click here. For two examples of her Life Writings on May Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Smith, click here.

Appeal

to the

Men of Great Britain

in behalf of

Women.

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Let it be remembered, that the efficacy of ignorance has been long tried, and has not produced the consequences expected. Let knowledge therefore take its turn, and let the patrons of privation stand a while aside, and admit the operation of positive principles.

Johnson.

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Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard;

and J. Bell, Oxford-Street.

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1798.