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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 |
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| Textual Features | Sophia King | This novel about the genesis of evil is told in the first person by its wicked yet pitiable male narrator, presented as a man of strong intellect and strong feeling, whose first words are What... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Fletcher | EF
's arrangement is chronological, with original documents printed as they occur or are relevant. Her recall is excellent, her observations and analysis acute, her character-drawing perceptive, and her style pithy. She freely and candidly... |
| 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. O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press. 106 |
| 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 | 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 | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
produces a treatise rather than a polemic, using a studied moderation of tone. She deploys an artful range of styles and her material is drawn from biology, history, sociology, economics, and in a large... |
| 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. 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 | Isabella Banks | The Neglected Wife describes a husband neglectful of his promise to cherish his wife and guard her from blighting care, or undermining grief, Banks, Isabella, and George Linnaeus Banks. Daisies in the Grass. R. Hardwicke. 118 |
| Textual Features | Helena Wells | HW
says she has more respect for the upper classes than some of our modern reformists. Wells, Helena. Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females. L. Peacock; W. Creech. 7 |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Yonge | The second volume is again rich in women's writing. Its first item is Elizabeth Gunning
's Family Stories; or, Evenings at my Grandmother's. CY
mentions with approval another item, A Puzzle for a Curious... |
| Textual Features | Mary Stott | Here MS
writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated... |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
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