1789
Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country
Blake, Songs of Innocence
1790
Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Occasioned by His “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
Hays writes Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women, not published until 1798, does publish Cursory Remarks on an Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship
Hays contributes to the Monthly Magazine; part of a series of articles on “The Talents of Women”
1791-1792
Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791/1792)
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
Hays meets Wollstonecraft and they begin a friendship that involves them sharing work with one another.
1793
William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
Blake, America: a prophecy
Hays publishes a collection of Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous
1794
Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience
Godwin, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
Hays writes to Godwin and begins a correspondence
1796
Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney
Hays contributes again to the Monthly Magazine; part of a series of articles on “The Talents of Women”