Impact
Reviews of the novel were mixed. The Memoirs of Emma Courtney was taken to be the true story of Hay's own life, and led various critics to mock and caricature her .
The novel addresses issues of female sexual passion, adultery, infanticide and suicide, as well as philosophical musings on the status of women in society. Emma reflects on "the inequalities of society, the source of every misery and vice, and on the peculiar disadvanteges of my sex". Conservative readers would have been particularly shocked when Emma at one point offers herself to Augustus without demanding marriage.
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