Daisy Hay

Daisy Hay Royal Society of Literature FRSL (born 1981) is an associate professor in the University of Exeter's department of English and Creative Writing and an award-winning author of non-fiction books. Elected in 2018 a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she received in 2010 the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for her book Young Romantics and in 2016 the Somerset Maugham Award for her book Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance. Quotes In common with other young writers whose lives were linked with theirs, Shelley, Keats and Byron were indebted to an earlier trio of Romantic poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake, whose work marked a striking break with the rational, Augustan poetry of the early eighteenth century. This break had a profound effect on literary culture in the decades following the French Revolution. Unlike Blake, whose work remained largely unread for decades after his death, Wordsworth and Coleridge were famous in their own time. Contemporaries of both poets were startled by the distinctiveness of their work, and by the English poetry#The Romantic movement new school of poetic thought they represented. Preface Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives Macmillan + ORM 2024 9781429946087 https://books.google.com/books?id=cMeoLcFMb7YC&pg=PR15 xiii–xix (372 pages; 1st edition 2010; quote from p. xv) Joseph Johnson (publisher) Joseph Johnson became a Bookselling bookseller and a Publishing maker of books in an age when books appeared to have the potential to change the world. Between 1760 and 1809, the years of Johnson's adulthood, Britain experienced a Georgian era#Social change period of political, social, scientific, cultural and religious change during which nothing was certain and everything seemed possible. On paper Joseph Johnson (publisher)#John Circle and dinners Johnson's dinner guests charted the evolution of Britain's relationship first with America and then with Europe: several were intimately involved in the struggles that reformed the International order world order. Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age Princeton University Press 2022 9780691243979 https://books.google.com/books/about/Dinner_with_Joseph_Johnson.html?id=PJhwEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4 4 (536 pages) In 1980 Earl Anderson published an article in Eighteenth-Century Studies on the history of foot races in which he characterised the old women's race in Evelina as a delightful instance. That view, thankfully, is not replicated elsewhere. Pioneering Burney scholars, including Margaret Doody Margaret Anne Doody and Kristina Straub, have read the race as symbolic of a social system that dehumanises women and is a literalisation of male brutality. Professor Daisy Hay Inaugural Lecture: Falling Over with Frances Burney February 20, 2025 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD0AkbcD6HQ&t=762s (quote at 12:42 of 56:53 in video) Quotes about Daisy Hay As with all the best biographers, Hay makes her readers drag their feet towards the end, reluctant to part company with people she has made us know and feel for. Her book has turned the Mary Anne Disraeli Disraelis’ uneven romance into a real love story. How pleased they would have been. Rosemary Hill, Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance by Daisy Hay; review – touching and erudite. From bailiffs to the ballot box to a raised pie from Fortnum’s – a prime minister’s extraordinary marriage 7 February 2015 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/07/mr-and-mrs-disraeli-a-strange-romance-by-daisy-hay-review-skilful-pacy Daisy Hay’s nuanced readings of Mary Shelley’s works, combined with photographs of manuscripts, books or physical artefacts from the collection, give readers a vivid picture of Mary Shelley’s time and how she translates life into art. As Hay in the concluding chapter argues, Frankenstein—as a productive, ethical and political metaphor—articulates the anxieties of an age inundated with emerging technologies, innovations and sudden changes. Jingxuan Yi, Fudan University, Book Review: Daisy Hay, The Making of Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2019) Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 10.18573/romtext.112 187–189 https://www.romtext.org.uk/files/2023/06/RT24_112.pdf (quote from p. 188) External links Professor Daisy Hay University of Exeter https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/22971-daisy-hay Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Women academics from England Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:People from Oxford Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:University of Exeter faculty Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 1980s