CRITICISM

Grove, Allen W. “To Make a Long Story Short: Gothic Fragments and the Gender Politics of Incompleteness.” Studies in Short Fiction 34, no. 1 (winter 1997): 1-10.

Discusses several fragments of Gothic fiction, among them Hays's “A Fragment,” which appears in her 1793 Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous.

Jacobus, Mary. “Traces of an Accusing Spirit: Mary Hays and the Vehicular State.” In Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading, pp. 202-34. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Uses Freud's theories to examine Emma Courtney, focusing on the epistolary portions of the novel.

Jones, Vivien. “Placing Jemima: Women Writers of the 1790s and the Eighteenth-Century Prostitution Narrative.” Women's Writing 4, no. 2 (1997): 201-20.

Examines the prostitution narrative, employed by Hays, Wollstonecraft, and others in the 1790s, as a rebellious genre.

Additional coverage of Hays's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 142 and 158.