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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin
, she met Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Wollstonecraft
(who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans... |
| Health | Adrienne Rich | After her third delivery she decided to be sterilised, though she met with social disapproval even from nurses caring for her in hospital: Had yourself spayed, did you? O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3. 22 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Burney | FB
's dedication includes a discussion of the art of writing novels. Her final heroine, Juliet, faces even greater problems than her predecessors in negotiating the passage into the haven of marriage. At the outset... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Burney | Wollstonecraft
's tacit presence here extends beyond the portrait of Elinor. Juliet, it turns out, is fleeing from an intolerable marriage, like the heroine of The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria. English law condemns... |
| 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 | Lady Anne Barnard | Auld Robin Gray always enjoyed great popularity, and many hearers supposed LAB
's version to be traditional. One biographer writes, Antique ladies, with confident but erroneous memories, professed to have heard it often when they... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Bessie Rayner Parkes | In a section devoted to the physical development of women, BRP
criticizes the unrealistic, senseless, and erroneous Parkes, Bessie Rayner. Remarks on the Education of Girls. J. Chapman. 9 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The work is headed with a motto: Feeling, not genius, prompts the lay, Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | More lays her heaviest emphasis on the need for observing propriety. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 195 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 117 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | MR
's title is a complex literary allusion. The tragic heroine of Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, 1703, tells her unwanted fiancé that their hearts were never paired above . . . joined... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | HM
's wife-seeking Coelebs is said to be modelled on John Scandrett Harford
, and her ideal heroine, Lucilla Stanley, on Louisa Davis, whom Harford eventually married. Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky. 154n83 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Radcliffe | The timing suggests influence from Wollstonecraft
's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | The book had coloured illustrations. ES
adopts here a relaxed, informal tone. She pays more attention than formerly to scenery (though she insists that only truly personal responses are interesting), but also to the humdrum... |
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