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”