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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | The Analytical's review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, takes MR
to task for over-reliance on her natural gifts. From carelessness, it says, her sentences are often confused, entangled with superfluous words, half-expressed sentiments, and... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Bennett | The Critical Review thought this the first of AMB
's novels to achieve excellence. This time, it said, the intricate story was well woven (at least in the first two volumes) and the plot and... |
| Literary responses | Cassandra, Lady Hawke | Some reviews were highly respectful. The Critical, while it just touched on too great a profusion of ornamental description, concentrated on good points. The story is conducted with great skill; intricately entangled, without too... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Inchbald | The novel was greeted in the Analytical Review, probably by Wollstonecraft
, as also in the Critical and the Monthly, with carefully discriminated and detailed praise. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 369-70 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 535-6 |
| Literary responses | Regina Maria Roche | |
| Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | The Analytical review (perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
) welcomed the book (referring to the author as male), deplored the hostility to new ideas in education even among those who should know better, and expressed the... |
| Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Mary Wollstonecraft
, though she saw many virtues in this book, was not happy that Adelaide was educated to be obedient, not independent-minded: that with all her accomplishments she was ready to marry any body... |
| Literary responses | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | The review in the Critical reflected annoyance that the author had (oddly, since she had on balance been favourably treated by this journal) called it ill-natured. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 67 (1789): 397 |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Samuel Taylor Coleridge reviewed this novel somewhat belatedly for the Critical Review. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 81 |
| Literary responses | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The volume received a damning telegraphic review in the Analytical (perhaps by Wollstonecraft
), which reads, in its entirety, Weak prosaic attempts, without the images or harmony of poetry. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 88 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Inchbald | Nature and Art was praised in the Monthly and Critical Review, with polite endorsement of EI
's reputation. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 16 (1796): 325 |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More
, Anna Seward
, and Elizabeth Carter
, who found some passages amazingly sublime. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 193 |
| Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | English reviewers, for instance in the Gentleman's Magazine, were ready with their praise. Dow, Gillian. “The British Reception of Madame de Genlis’s Writings for Children: Plays and Tales of Instruction and Delight”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 29 , No. 3, pp. 367-81. 374 |
| Literary responses | Jane West | When the fourth volume appeared in 1789, the Critical found it heavy, languid and uninteresting, and judged the serial publication to have been a mistake. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 68 (1789): 495 |
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