Mary Wollstonecraft

27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797

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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Intertextuality and Influence	Ann Oakley	AO 's epigraph is from Mary Wollstonecraft 's travel letters. Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo. prelims She interrupts her straightforward narrative (Chronologies), with poems, dialogues, accounts of dreams, passages addressing members of her family, and extended lyrical passages...
Intertextuality and Influence	Adrienne Rich	The title poem had been jotted in fragments during children's naps, brief hours in a library or at three am after rising with a wakeful child. O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3. 22 The collection followed on intensive reading of such...
Intertextuality and Influence	Anne Grant	AG responded to what she acknowledged as Mary Wollstonecraft 's considerable powers, feeling and rectitude of intention Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 268 with fierce resistance to her opinions. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Intertextuality and Influence	Julia O'Faolain	The topics covered in richly informative detail, far too many to enumerate, include a father's life-or-death rights over his offspring in ancient Greece, while such topics as buying and selling sex, or the relation...
Intertextuality and Influence	Adrienne Rich	These poems abandon AR 's former regular metres for free verse, as they abandon decorum for outspoken personal expression about the struggle necessary to be a thinking woman rather than a good girl. O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3. 22
Intertextuality and Influence	Helen Craik	Authors quoted on HC 's title-page include La Rochefoucauld . Mary Robinson 's Walsingham is quoted in volume two and supplies the epigraph for volume three. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32. 228n47 The story opens shortly before the French Revolution...
Intertextuality and Influence	Flora Tristan	One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage. Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books. 198 FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
Intertextuality and Influence	Anne Grant	Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson
Intertextuality and Influence	Anna Jane Vardill	AJV translates from Sappho , Anacreon , Alcæus , Theocritus , Horace , and more recent poets: Petrarch and Camoens . She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan	A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace , Swift , and Coleridge
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Robins	As preface it reprints Woman's Secret (first published in 1900 for the WSPU by the Garden City Press of Letchworth), which argues that women's disadvantaged position is not the result of a conspiracy by...
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...
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	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 standards applied to women's beauty in a manner that strikes a modern reader as far ahead of...

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