TY - BOOK AU - Hays,Mary TI - Memoirs of Emma Courtney AV - PR PY - 2012/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - England -- Fiction KW - Young women -- Fiction KW - Love stories KW - Bildungsromans KW - Feminist fiction KW - Sex role -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Emma_Courtney; Release date is 2012-11-01; Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Memoirs of Emma Courtney" by Mary Hays is an epistolary novel published in 1796. Through letters to a young man she calls her son, Emma Courtney recounts her passionate pursuit of a man who cannot marry her, her eventual marriage to another, and the tragedies that follow. This partly autobiographical work scandalized contemporary readers with its frank treatment of female desire and bold questioning of women's place in society, earning Hays recognition as a feminist pioneer. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41256 ER -