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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | |
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 |
Textual Features | Edith Sitwell | This book depends on poking fun at its subjects, and invites its readers to join in Sitwell's superior amusement. Some of her subjects deserve better, like Margaret Fuller
, who (despite the adjective in the... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | An extensive notice, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical Review, says this novel is distinguished among others by its quality, yet shares their general tendency to debauch the mind Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 26 |
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 | 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | This epistolary novel is highly political; its preface asserts a woman's right to interest in politics. The letters in it span the period from June 1790 to February 1792, tracking the events of the French... |
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. . .... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | Here, under the rubric of writing only scenes of modern life and possible events and eschewing the craze for the wild, the terrible, and the supernatural, Smith, Charlotte. The Young Philosopher. Editor Kraft, Elizabeth, University Press of Kentucky. 5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | Sales were unexpectedly brisk. Reviews were positive and most emphasised that the stories here were true. Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Smith, edited by Michael Garner et al., Pickering and Chatto, p. xxix - xxxvii. xxxvi |
Friends, Associates | Robert Southey | Having early in his life admired writers like Mary Wollstonecraft
and Charlotte Smith
, he later numbered women writers such as Anna Eliza Bray
among his close friends. |
Literary responses | Germaine de Staël | Mary Wollstonecraft
gave this work a poor review. |
Literary responses | Mariana Starke | A good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical, says: This interesting tale is told in easy flowing measures, and many sentiments occur that do honour to the writer's heart.. It... |
Textual Features | Mary Stott | Here MS
writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ray Strachey | The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft
's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale
, Josephine Butler
, John Stuart Mill
, Sophia Jex-Blake
, and many others. Its heroine... |
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