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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Antonia Fraser | She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter
and published in later 1976. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada. 62 |
| Publishing | George Eliot | The Leader carried GE
's important short article Margaret Fuller
and Mary Wollstonecraft, another trenchant examination of women's position in society. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 143 |
| Publishing | Mathilde Blind | MB
published in most of the leading journals of her day including the Athenæum, to which she contributed along with her friend Helen Zimmern
. Critic Marysa Demoor
considers MB
's and others' access... |
| Publishing | Mary Hays | MH
contributed often to Richard Phillips
's new Monthly Magazine. During 1796 also, she began reviewing books for the Analytical, edited by Mary Wollstonecraft
, signing herself V.V. Luria, Gina M. Mary Hays (1759-1843): The Growth of a Woman’s Mind. Ashgate. 255 Ferguson, Moira, editor. First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578-1799. Indiana University Press. 412-13 Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon. 109, 111 Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1. xvi Waters, Mary A. “’The First of a New Genus’: Mary Wollstonecraft as Literary Critic and Mentor to Mary Hays”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 37 , No. 3, pp. 415-34. 426 |
| Author summary | Samuel Johnson | Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ
achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and... |
| Author summary | Anna Wheeler | Anna Wheeler
has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft
and before Emmeline Pankhurst
. Roberts, Marie Mulvey et al., editors. “Introduction”. The Reformers: Socialist Feminism, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, p. xi - xv. xii |
| politics | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
had showed a keen interest in women's issues from early in life, when she seems to have been for some time a devotee of Mary Wollstonecraft
. But she told Browning in 1845 that... |
| politics | Harriet Martineau | For all the influences that might have been expected to predispose Martineau to admire the work of Mary Wollstonecraft
, she apparently despised the earlier writer as insufficiently self-sufficient. She called Wollstonecraft, with all her... |
| politics | John Milton | This is an argument which defends Milton's behaviour, and later Milton critics have offered different defences of him in the light of different ideas about what constitutes good behaviour in matters of gender. Meanwhile a... |
| politics | Charlotte Dacre | |
| politics | Lady Caroline Lamb | Like her birth family, LCL
strongly supported a Whig and reformist political agenda. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 85 Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 86 |
| politics | Mary Gawthorpe | It was apparently MG
who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
| politics | Susanna Blamire | Several among SB
's poems reveal her sympathy (a feeling not sentimental but based on close personal knowledge and contact acquired as a medical visitor) for the harsh and arguably deteriorating conditions of the rural... |
| politics | Clara Reeve | CR
said that her father was an old Whig, and it appears that her own politics were of the same stamp. She favoured social reforms like improved education for women, and welcomed the early... |
| politics | Ann Jebb | It is odd that although she lived in London when Wollstonecraft
published her Vindication, AJ
left no recorded comment on the issue of women's rights. This may be because surviving excerpts from her correspondence... |
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