Memoirs of Emma Courtney
By Mary Hays

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London : Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1796The first edition, published in London in 1796, consisted of two separate volumes. See the ESTC for details.New York: Printed for Hugh Griffith, No. 88 Water Street, 1802This is the first Amerian edition, which is the only edition available freely on Google Books or HathiTrust. The page images for this digital edition are from the Google Books digital facsimile, available at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Memoirs_of_Emma_Courtney/94UgAAAAMAAJ.Open access online edition: Project Gutenberg, Nov 1, 2012The base text for this digital edition is drawn from Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41256/41256-h/41256-h.htm and checked against the first American edition.

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Hays, Mary. Memoirs of Emma Courtney, Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1796 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Hays/hays-memoirs. Accessed: 2025-02-05T18:28:14.886Z

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MEMOIRS
OF
EMMA COURTNEY.
By MARY HAYS.

"The preceptions of persons in retirement are very different from those of people in the great world: their passions, being differently modified, are differently expressed; their imaginations, constantly impressed by the same objects, are more violently affected. The same small number of images continually returrn, mix with every idea, and create those strange andd false notions, so remarkable in people who spenddd their lives in solitude."

ROUSSEAU
TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.
VOL. I.
New-York::
PRINTED FOR HUGH M. GRIFFITH, NO. 88,
WATER-STREET, 1802.

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Footnotes

an1* The Monk.

an2* Helvetius.

an3* Mr. Courtney's brother had taken the name of Morton, to qualify himself for the inheritance of an estate, bequeathed to him by a distant relation.

an4* Helvetius.

an5* Wolstonecraft's Rights of Woman.

an6* Holcroft's Anna St Ives.