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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The Critical Review gave high praise to this novel's characters, and said not many works of fiction excelled it, although it found the plot weak and in parts derivative: the wandering of Calista is perhaps... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Trimmer | The Gentleman's Magazine gave the cards three lines of praise, as admirably well calculated Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 59 (1789): 445 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Mary Wollstonecraft
, reviewing Ethelinde for the Analytical Review, praised Smith's sharp eye, as a member of the upper class herself, for that class's failings. The Critical praised her great merit overall (in story... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Trimmer | A single-paragraph review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, observes that by now ST
must be an expert in her benevolent attempt to improve the poor, Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 123 |
| Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | A respectful review by Mary Wollstonecraft
in the Analytical praised Williams's calm domestic scenes, Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 251 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney
's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | The Critical Review, reviewing this book, called CS
a sister-queen Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 141 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 548 |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | J. W. Croker
's notice in the Quarterly Review (in June 1812, wrongly attributed by some to Southey
) was most offensive of all. He reached for the gendered weapons so often drawn against Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | The book had a good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical for December 1790. The interesting, unaffected letters which this pleasing writer has now presented to the public Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 322 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
| Literary responses | Frances Burney | Burney's family were delighted. Her young half-sister Sarah Harriet
(who was about to publish her own first novel) sent her a perfect rhapsody of praise. Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press. 17-18 |
| Occupation | Fanny Holcroft | Lady Mountcashel as a girl had had Mary Wollstonecraft
as her governess; Wollstonecraft too had been dismissed from this post, though she had preserved her friendship with her pupil Margaret, later Lady Mountcashel. FH
's... |
| Occupation | John Milton | As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden
praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime... |
| Occupation | William Godwin | The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson
: visitors included Germaine de Staël
. It remained, however... |
| 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... |
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