Mary Wollstonecraft
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Standard Name: Wollstonecraft, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Wollstonecraft
Married Name: Mary Godwin
Pseudonym: Mr Cresswick, Teacher of Elocution
Pseudonym: M.
Pseudonym: W.
MW
has a distinguished historical place as a feminist: as theorist, critic and reviewer, novelist, and especially as an activist for improving women's place in society. She also produced pedagogy or conduct writing, an anthology, translation, history, analysis of politics as well as gender politics, and a Romantic account of her travels in Scandinavia.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | Both Novellos were close friends of Mary Shelley
during the 1820s. Mary gave Vincent a lock of the hair of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft
. Crook, Nora. “Fourteen New Letters by Mary Shelley”. Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 62 , pp. 37-61. 43 |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Godwin | He was already famous (or, to some, infamous) for his writings when he and Mary Wollstonecraft
became lovers in August 1796. They married on 29 March 1797 (although both of them disapproved of the institution... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | MS
's mother, feminist author and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft
, died eleven days after giving her birth. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 20 Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 297-08. 305 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | This was John Opie's second marriage; his first wife had deserted him and their marriage had been dissolved by act of parliament. The second marriage remained childless. John Opie had been enjoying professional success in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Holcroft | In May 1794 Thomas Holcroft was indicted for high treason and spent time in prison; but he was acquitted at his trial. During the nine years between the death of Fanny's mother and his next... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Batten Cristall | His father was very much against Joshua becoming an artist, so his mother sent him money and clothes on the sly to keep him financially afloat. Roget, John Lewis. A History of the Old Water-Colour Society. Longmans, Green. 1: 185 |
Family and Intimate relationships | W. H. Auden | Nicholas Jenkins
of Stanford University
formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a... |
Education | Dora Carrington | Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only. Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 13 |
Education | Anna Wheeler | In between constant pregnancies and nursing, AW
began to educate herself. She read French and German philosophy and the classics, which she had imported from England. The most influential text she read was Mary Wollstonecraft |
Education | Louisa May Alcott | |
Education | Fay Weldon | Fay attended another progressive establishment, the co-educational Burgess Hill School
, which she found absurd, not only noisy and disorderly but actively anti-academic. The best thing about it was being taught English briefly by the... |
death | William Godwin | WG
, novelist, political philosopher, widower of Mary Wollstonecraft
, and father of Mary Shelley
, died in London. Sherburn, George, and William Godwin. “Introduction”. Caleb Williams, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, p. vii - xx. xvii |
Characters | Joanna Baillie | Countess Albini in Count Basil is a heroine in the same mould as Jane De Monfort: critic Anne Mellor
calls her not only the embodiment of rational judgement but also Baillie's homage to Mary Wollstonecraft |
Birth | Katharine S. Macquoid | She was baptised on 23 February at St Pancras Old Church (in whose graveyard Mary Wollstonecraft
was buried). Her baptismal record spelled her name Catherine. The International Genealogical Index records another Catherine Thomas born later... |
Anthologization | Evelyn Sharp | ES
contributed an entry on Mary Wollstonecraft to a large volume edited by A. Barratt Brown
, entitled Great Democrats. Clark, Beverly Lyon, and Evelyn Sharp. “Introduction”. The Making of a Schoolgirl, Oxford University Press, pp. 3-23. 23 |
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