Female biography és un catàleg enciclopèdic discret i empíric de producció de coneixement i anàlisi que va ser creat per Mary Hays (1759–1843) mentre feia recerca de figures de la Il·lustració i sobre la prosopografia de dones influents. Female Biography, que també rep el nom de Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries (R. Phillips, 1803), engloba en 6 volums les bibliografies de fins a 300 dones. Una nova versió de l'encliclopèdia va ser publicada al 2013 com a part de sèrie de la Chawton House Library anomenada Memoirs of Women Writers. Aquesta edició, anomenada Chawton House Library Edition (CHLE) va ser compilada per , produïda per una col·laboració d'erudits contemporanis representant més de 100 institucions en 18 països i 4 continents, i conté noves anotacions i recerca que contextualitzen el treball original de Hays. Aproximadament 100 de les enumerades en aquesta llista també van ser incloses a la instal·lació artística de Judy Chicago del 1979, The Dinner Party. (ca)
Female biography was identified and named by Mary Hays (1759–1843) as a discrete empirical category of knowledge production and analysis while researching figures for the first Enlightenment prosopography of women, Female Biography; Or, memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries (R. Phillips, 1803) in six volumes. The first American edition came in 1807, arranged as three volumes and with minor typographical corrections (Birch & Small, Philadelphia). A new version of the encyclopedia was published again in six volumes in 2013 and 2014, as part of The Chawton House Library Series Memoirs of Women Writers (Part II: volumes 5–7; Part III, volumes 8–10; Pickering & Chatto, London). The Chawton House Library Edition (or CHLE) was edited by Gina Luria Walker, produced by a collaborative of contemporary scholars representing over 100 institutions in 18 countries and four continents, and contains new annotations and research that contextualize Hays's original sources of information. This list of women collects all 300 figures included in Female Biography. Approximately 100 of the subjects listed here were also included in Judy Chicago's 1979 art installation The Dinner Party, either with a place setting at the table or with a ceramic tile in the Heritage Floor. The names in the list below appear as they were spelled and alphabetized by Hays for the original publication. Hays grouped some subjects together in a single entry (resulting in a total count of 294 entries, but 300 subjects), indicated below with asterisks, all of which have been separately identified by scholars working on the modern edition. (en)
Female biography és un catàleg enciclopèdic discret i empíric de producció de coneixement i anàlisi que va ser creat per Mary Hays (1759–1843) mentre feia recerca de figures de la Il·lustració i sobre la prosopografia de dones influents. Female Biography, que també rep el nom de Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries (R. Phillips, 1803), engloba en 6 volums les bibliografies de fins a 300 dones. (ca)
Female biography was identified and named by Mary Hays (1759–1843) as a discrete empirical category of knowledge production and analysis while researching figures for the first Enlightenment prosopography of women, Female Biography; Or, memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries (R. Phillips, 1803) in six volumes. (en)