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.
Stipple engraving of Mary Wollstonecraft by James Heath after the painting by John Opie. She is wearing a light, loosely-fitting gown with high waist and a folded cap like a turban.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Lee
HL turned down a marriage proposal from William Godwin , recent widower of Mary Wollstonecraft .
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , over her mother 's grave in St Pancras churchyard, told Percy Bysshe Shelley that she loved him.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
Fanny Imlay , sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and elder daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft , killed herself in a boarding-house in Swansea.
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown.
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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.
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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.
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In the family home while Mary was growing up, Wollstonecraft's portrait was still prominently displayed.
Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 297-08.
305
Education Louisa May Alcott
She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft and also warmed...
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...
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.
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Excitement about her new surroundings and acquaintances prompted her to...
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
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.
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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.
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