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⚫ | Eliza Ball Hayley (b 18 June 1750- 8 November 1797) was an English |
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| death_place = London |
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| nationality = English |
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| occupation = Translator, essayist |
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| known_for = Married to William Hayley |
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| notable_works = ''Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert''; ''The Triumph of Acquaintance over Friendship: an Essay for the Times'' |
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⚫ | Eliza Ball Hayley (b 18 June 1750- 8 November 1797) was an English translator and essayist, best known for having translated into English two essays by the French salonnière and intellectual [[Anne Thérèse de Lambert|Anna Thèrese de Lambert]] (1647 – 1733), ''Traité de l’Amitié'' (1732) and ''Traité de la Vieillesse'' (1732), published in 1780 as ''Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert''. Sixteen years later she published an original work, ''The Triumph of Acquaintance over Friendship: an Essay for the Times'' (1796). |
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<ref>{{cite book |last1=Blain |first1=Virginia |title=The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present |date=1990 |publisher=Batsford |isbn=0713458488 |page=503}}</ref> Some of the letters from Ball Hayley's that have survived, stored at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, will be a part of the pilot digital edition of the correspondence of William Hayley: "A Museum of Relationships", currently a work in progress lead by Dr Lisa Gee. |
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|url= http://hayleypapers.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/ |
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|title= A Museum of Relationships: The correspondence of William Hayley (1745-1820) |
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|url= https://hayley.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/ |
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|title= The correspondence of William Hayley |
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|author= Lisa Gee |
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<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gee |first1=Lisa |title=Eliza Hayley – the portrait mystery |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xBZAFZESh0&ab_channel=LisaGee |website=Youtube |access-date=14 May 2021}}</ref> |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Eliza Ball was the daughter of Thomas Ball (1698-1770), dean of Chichester, and Margaret Mill (1712-1783). |
Eliza Ball was the daughter of Thomas Ball (1698-1770), dean of Chichester, and Margaret Mill (1712-1783). |
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The couple separated in 1789, and Ball Hayley moved to Derby. Ball Hayley's mental health, quoted by Thomas as a reason for their estrangement, was a subject of interest for her contemporaries and her husband’s biographers, and it remains a matter of speculation. |
The couple separated in 1789, and Ball Hayley moved to Derby. Ball Hayley's mental health, quoted by Thomas as a reason for their estrangement, was a subject of interest for her contemporaries and her husband’s biographers, and it remains a matter of speculation. |
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|url= https://www.museums.cam.ac.uk/blog/2019/02/11/an-eighteenth-century-love-triangle/ |
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|title= A poet, his wife, and “the ugliest of all possible kept mistresses” |
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Her obituary, published in the ''Gentleman's Magazine'', described her as “Mrs Hayley, wife of Wm. H. esq. of Eartham, Sussex, the celebrated poet, and daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Ball, dean of Chichester.”, making no references to her publications. <ref>{{cite web |
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|title= The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 82 |
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|author= Sylvanus Urban |
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|date= 1797 |
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|publisher= London. John Nichols. |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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*''Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert'' (1780). |
*''Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert'' (1780). |
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*''The Triumph of Acquaintance over Friendship: an Essay for the Times'' (1796). |
*''The Triumph of Acquaintance over Friendship: an Essay for the Times'' (1796). |
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==Literary circle== |
==Literary circle== |
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During the first half of 1781 Eliza resided in Bath, where she met, amongst others, William Melmoth Jr, to whom she had dedicated her ''Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert'' the year before. Between January and February, she attended [[Anna Miller|Lady Miller]]’s Bath-Easton assembly. She was friends with the poet and literary critic [[Anna Seward]]. |
During the first half of 1781 Eliza resided in Bath, where she met, amongst others, William Melmoth Jr, to whom she had dedicated her ''Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert'' the year before. Between January and February, she attended [[Anna Miller|Lady Miller]]’s Bath-Easton assembly. She was friends with the poet and literary critic [[Anna Seward]]. |
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<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Blanch-Serrat |first1=Francesca |title=“I mourn their nature, but admire their art”: Anna Seward’s Assertion of Critical Authority in Maturity and Old Age |journal=ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies |date=2 December 2019 |issue=40|pages=11–31 |doi=10.24197/ersjes.40.2019.11-31 |url=https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview/article/view/3981/3141 |access-date=14 May 2021}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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Born | Chichester |
Died | London |
Nationality | English |
Occupation(s) | Translator, essayist |
Known for | Married to William Hayley |
Notable work | Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert; The Triumph of Acquaintance over Friendship: an Essay for the Times |
Eliza Ball Hayley (b 18 June 1750- 8 November 1797) was an English translator and essayist, best known for having translated into English two essays by the French salonnière and intellectual Anna Thèrese de Lambert (1647 – 1733), Traité de l’Amitié (1732) and Traité de la Vieillesse (1732), published in 1780 as Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert. Sixteen years later she published an original work, The Triumph of Acquaintance over Friendship: an Essay for the Times (1796).
[1] Some of the letters from Ball Hayley's that have survived, stored at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, will be a part of the pilot digital edition of the correspondence of William Hayley: "A Museum of Relationships", currently a work in progress lead by Dr Lisa Gee.
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Biography
Eliza Ball was the daughter of Thomas Ball (1698-1770), dean of Chichester, and Margaret Mill (1712-1783).
In 1768 she was married to William Hayley, her father's godson, whom she knew from infancy, and settled at Eartham, the Hayleys ancestral home, in June 1774 [5]
The couple separated in 1789, and Ball Hayley moved to Derby. Ball Hayley's mental health, quoted by Thomas as a reason for their estrangement, was a subject of interest for her contemporaries and her husband’s biographers, and it remains a matter of speculation. [6] Between 1794 and until her death, the author often visited London, residing near Hyde Park. [7]
If Seward’s letters to Ball Hayley are any indicator of the former’s social life, Ball Hayley was very active during those years. She was in her residence in London [8], when she died the 8th of November of 1797 of an "epidemic fever"[6]
She was buried in Eartham on the 17th of November of 1797.
Her husband William wrote an epitaph intended for her funeral monument:
“If lovely features and a lofty mind
Tender as charity as bounty kind
If these were blessings that to life could give
A lot which makes it happiness to live
Thou Eliza hadst been blest on earth
But Seraphs in compassion wept thy birth
For thy deep nervous woes of wondrous weight
Love could not heal nor sympathy relate
Yet pity trusts with hallowed truth serene
Thy God o repays them in a purer scene Peace to thy ashes to thy memory love
And to thy spirit in the realms above
All that from blameless sufferings below
Mortality can hope or angels know”
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Her obituary, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, described her as “Mrs Hayley, wife of Wm. H. esq. of Eartham, Sussex, the celebrated poet, and daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Ball, dean of Chichester.”, making no references to her publications. [10]
Works
- Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert (1780).
- The Triumph of Acquaintance over Friendship: an Essay for the Times (1796).
Literary circle
During the first half of 1781 Eliza resided in Bath, where she met, amongst others, William Melmoth Jr, to whom she had dedicated her Essays on Friendship and Old Age by the Marchioness de Lambert the year before. Between January and February, she attended Lady Miller’s Bath-Easton assembly. She was friends with the poet and literary critic Anna Seward. [11]
References
- ^ Blain, Virginia (1990). The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Batsford. p. 503. ISBN 0713458488.
- ^ Lisa Gee. "A Museum of Relationships: The correspondence of William Hayley (1745-1820)". Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Lisa Gee. "The correspondence of William Hayley". Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Gee, Lisa. "Eliza Hayley – the portrait mystery". Youtube. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ John Johnson (1823). "Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq. The Friend and Biographer of Cowper". Google Books. London. S. and R. Bentley. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ a b Lisa Gee (2019). "A poet, his wife, and "the ugliest of all possible kept mistresses"". Cambridge University Museums: Collections in Action. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Anna Seward (1811). "Letters of Anna Seward". Archibald Constable. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Vivienne W. Painting. "ODNB: Hayley, William (1745–1820)". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ John Johnson (1823). "Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq. The Friend and Biographer of Cowper". London. S. and R. Bentley. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Sylvanus Urban (1797). "The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 82". London. John Nichols. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Blanch-Serrat, Francesca (2 December 2019). ""I mourn their nature, but admire their art": Anna Seward's Assertion of Critical Authority in Maturity and Old Age". ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies (40): 11–31. doi:10.24197/ersjes.40.2019.11-31. Retrieved 14 May 2021.