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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Mary Wollstonecraft
, reviewing Ethelinde for the Analytical Review, praised Smith's sharp eye, as a member of the upper class herself, for that class's failings. The Critical praised her great merit overall (in story... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Trimmer | A single-paragraph review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, observes that by now ST
must be an expert in her benevolent attempt to improve the poor, Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 123 |
| Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | A respectful review by Mary Wollstonecraft
in the Analytical praised Williams's calm domestic scenes, Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 251 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney
's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | The Critical Review, reviewing this book, called CS
a sister-queen Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 141 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 548 |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | J. W. Croker
's notice in the Quarterly Review (in June 1812, wrongly attributed by some to Southey
) was most offensive of all. He reached for the gendered weapons so often drawn against Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | The book had a good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical for December 1790. The interesting, unaffected letters which this pleasing writer has now presented to the public Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 322 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
| Literary responses | Frances Burney | Burney's family were delighted. Her young half-sister Sarah Harriet
(who was about to publish her own first novel) sent her a perfect rhapsody of praise. Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press. 17-18 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Again the Analytical reviewer may have been Wollstonecraft
, and if so she was better pleased than before: another novel, written with her usual flow of language and happy discrimination of manners. . .... |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's early fame is exemplified in the project of a well-known London printer (reported in January 1787) for a series of plates illustrating works by the most celebrated British Poets. His list began with... |
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | A short notice in the Analytical Review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, singled out this passage for comment. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 331 |
| Literary responses | Maria De Fleury | The later edition was noticed in the Analytical Review, probably by Wollstonecraft
, as using tame and prosaic language, a faint imitation of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 81-2 |
| Literary responses | Anne Francis | This book was reviewed in the Analytical (probably by Wollstonecraft
), which found it pretty but not above mediocrity, and wished that Charlotte had not had to apologise for the indelicacy of surviving Werther. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 264-5 |
| Literary responses | Susanna Watts | The Critical Review thought The Wonderful Travels of Prince Fan-Feredin offered its readers a pleasant and harmless laugh Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 11 (1794): 356 |
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