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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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.
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Unlike Wollstonecraft , she sees women's sphere as naturally limited and...
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 Mary Robinson
MR opens her feminist volume on the way women have been valued for being decorative but despised as regards mind, and pays tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft . As examples of modern abuses she cites unequal...
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 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 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 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.
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She despises Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis as a delightful mixture of cant and affectation...
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
but who, on the contrary, has many extramarital affairs. Like Mary Wollstonecraft
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.
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She recommends reading poetry and history, not novels: Novel reading tends to enervate the mind. We rise from...
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 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 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 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 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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