Family Annals, or the Sisters

Li-ching Chen is Associate Professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literature at National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Her research interests focus on women’s writing, intellectual history, conduct literature, and consumption practices in England in the long eighteenth century.

Table of Contents

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Chronology of Mary Hays

Introduction

Bibliography

Note on the Text

Family Annals, or the Sisters

Illustration

To Mrs Fenwick, of Bridge Town, Barbadoes

Preface

Text of Family Annals

Appendices

Appendix A: On Education

Appendix B: On Economy (Domestic Economy)

Appendix C: On Fashion

Appendix D: Selections from Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees: Or,

Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1723)

Appendix E: Selected Articles by Mary Hays in the Monthly Magazine

Appendix F: Mary Hays’s Novels and Books for Young Persons

Appendix G: Mary Hays’s Review of Jane West’s A Gossip’s Story, and a

Legendary Tale (1796)

Appendix H: Reviews of Family Annals, or the Sisters

Notes