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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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Textual Features | Julia Kristeva | JK
's essay distinguishes three phases or generations in feminism. The first phase (whose opening can be dated from Wollstonecraft
or from another pioneering feminist text) is associated with linear time and with agitation for... |
Textual Features | George Eliot | Miss Arrowpoint saves herself, while Mirah, the young Jewish woman whom Daniel eventually marries, needs him to save her from a suicide attempt reminiscent of that of Mary Wollstonecraft
. Gwendolen, at the climactic moment... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Wordsworth | What she does not write may sometimes be regretted. She recorded the arrival of Mary Wollstonecraft
's life, etc. (her Posthumous Works, including The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria) on 14 April 1798... |
Textual Features | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
welcomes the way that Adam Smith
and other Scottish Enlightenment writers have made womanhood a branch of philosophy, not a little interesting. qtd. in O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 106 |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron
's Childe Harold. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 1: 133, 152 |
Textual Features | Anna Margaretta Larpent | This later diary, generally written daily at any odd moment, provides indexing of special events which reveals AML
's methodical character. Occasional months are missing here and there. The diarist offers penetrating comment on a... |
Textual Features | Hannah Brand | This heroic tragedy (full title Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade) is given with passages restored that were omitted in performance. It is set in 1456 (three years after Constantinople, capital of the Christian... |
Textual Features | Ann Bridge | Though the authors declare on their opening page that the modern need is to supplement the exhaustive Baedeker with a selective guidebook (something designed to tell travellers what they cannot afford to miss), they actually... |
Textual Features | Hannah More | HM
writes her Hints in full political consciousness of the likelihood that she is trying to shape a future ruler. Her claim to have remained uninfluenced by Wollstonecraft
or Catharine Macaulay
(whom she called patriotic... |
Textual Features | Hannah Cowley | For her preface HC
clearly felt the need to back-pedal. I protest I know nothing about politics; will Miss Wolstonecraft
forgive me—whose book contains such a body of mind as I hardly ever met with—if... |
Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
here traces the shift from eighteenth-century tolerance and scepticism to Victorian religious earnestness. She makes good use of writing during these periods, including writing by women (novels, diaries, letters, memoirs), showing herself a highly... |
Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | This use of instruction cards was innovative, at least in England. ST
may or may not have known of the cards issued by Sarah Scott
and Lady Barbara Montagu
in April 1759 (which failed as... |
Textual Features | Eliza Fenwick | This epistolary novel, set mainly in a castle with secret passages connecting to a monastic ruin , deals with strictly contemporary issues of power and independence. It reflects the influence of EF
's friend Wollstonecraft |
Textual Features | Eliza Fenwick | EF
's letters, vividly written, full of ironic self-awareness, make an excellent source for her life. They reflect her powerful feelings for her children, ambivalent feelings about her experience of authorship, her continuing interest in... |
Textual Features | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Contents include lives of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
and of Mary Wollstonecraft
(the latter reprinted from the Monthly Visitor of London). Among the poems (some of them specifically attributed to SHR
) are one entitled... |
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