# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-hays
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:25:30.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-hays"
name: "Mary Hays"
slug: "mary-hays"
description: "Mary Hays (1759–1843) was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels and several works on famous women. She is remembered for her early feminism, and her close relations to dissenting and radical thinkers of her time including Robert Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and William Frend. She was born in 1759, into a family of Protestant dissenters who rejected the practices of the Church of England. Hays was described by those who disliked her as 'the baldest disciple of [Mary] Wollstonecraft' by The Anti Jacobin Magazine, attacked as an 'unsex'd female' by clergyman Robert Polwhele, and provoked controversy through her long life with her rebellious writings. When Hays's fiancé John Eccles died on the eve of their marriage, Hays expected to die of grief herself. But this apparent tragedy meant that she escaped an ordinary future as wife and mother, remaining unmarried. She seized the chance to make a career for herself in the larger world as a writer."
tagline: "British writer (1759-1843)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1759-05-04"
deathDate: "1843-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.11
  momentum:             1.565217391304348
  historical:           10.08103066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Mary Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "ماري هايز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "مارى هايز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hays"
    title: "Mary Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hays"
    title: "Mary Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hays"
    title: "Mary Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hays"
    title: "Mary Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hays"
    title: "Mary Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hays"
    title: "Mary Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hays"
    title: "Mary Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hays"
    title: "Mary Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hays"
    title: "Mary Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1797831"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump