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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | A notice in the Analytical Review (perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
) complained that AY
did not deserve her current fame: she certainly has abilities, an independent mind and a feeling heart; but she was... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Bonhote | This book was highly successful. But an Analytical reviewer in January 1792 (who may have been Wollstonecraft
) was not impressed, finding trite sentiments expressed in bald language Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 414 |
| Literary responses | Susanna Watts | The Critical Review thought The Wonderful Travels of Prince Fan-Feredin offered its readers a pleasant and harmless laugh Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2d ser. 11 (1794): 356 |
| Literary responses | Germaine de Staël | Mary Wollstonecraft
gave this work a poor review. |
| 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 | 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. qtd. in Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 67 (1789): 397 |
| 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, 2006, pp. 367-81. 374 |
| Literary responses | Olaudah Equiano | This book was an immediate success in Britain, and in the USA it significantly influenced the emancipation movement. Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, 2001, pp. 7-37. 11, 7 |
| 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, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 369-70 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 535-6 |
| Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft
can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | An extensive notice, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical Review, says this novel is distinguished among others by its quality, yet shares their general tendency to debauch the mind Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 26 |
| Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Beverly Lyon Clark
, who wrote an introduction to this book and thought extremely highly of it, argued that the neglect of it stemmed from its belonging not just to one but to several under-appreciated... |
| 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, 5 series. 2d ser. 16 (1796): 325 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Nugent Bromley |
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