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 |
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politics | Ann Martin Taylor | According to her son Isaac, AMT
harboured a pungent dislike of certain of the female sympathizers with the French Revolution, inclusive of Mary Wollstonecraft
. Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge. 132 |
politics | Clara Reeve | CR
said that her father was an old Whig, and it appears that her own politics were of the same stamp. She favoured social reforms like improved education for women, and welcomed the early... |
politics | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
had showed a keen interest in women's issues from early in life, when she seems to have been for some time a devotee of Mary Wollstonecraft
. But she told Browning in 1845 that... |
politics | Harriet Martineau | For all the influences that might have been expected to predispose Martineau to admire the work of Mary Wollstonecraft
, she apparently despised the earlier writer as insufficiently self-sufficient. She called Wollstonecraft, with all her... |
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... |
politics | Charlotte Dacre | |
politics | Lady Caroline Lamb | Like her birth family, LCL
strongly supported a Whig and reformist political agenda. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 85 Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 86 |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | It was apparently MG
who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
politics | Susanna Blamire | Several among SB
's poems reveal her sympathy (a feeling not sentimental but based on close personal knowledge and contact acquired as a medical visitor) for the harsh and arguably deteriorating conditions of the rural... |
Author summary | Anna Wheeler | Anna Wheeler
has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft
and before Emmeline Pankhurst
. Roberts, Marie Mulvey et al., editors. “Introduction”. The Reformers: Socialist Feminism, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, p. xi - xv. xii |
Author summary | Samuel Johnson | Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ
achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and... |
Publishing | Eliza Fenwick | As Lissa Paul has pointed out, she wrote not long after the appearance in earlier 1794 of the Second Report from the Committee of Secrecy, a progress report on government snooping into private affairs... |
Publishing | Mary Shelley | During this year MS
helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci. Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 385-11. 388 |
Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Barbauld probably wrote two anonymous articles on the recently-dead Mary Wollstonecraft
in the Monthly Visitor, 1798. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Publishing | Samuel Johnson | The work was translated into Spanish by Inés Joyes y Blake
as El principe de Abisinia and published at Madrid by 25 May 1798, bound together with Blake's proto-feminist, Wollstonecraft
-influenced tract, the Apologia de... |
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