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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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... |
| Reception | Hildegarde of Bingen | In recent times she has made a rapid transition from being unknown to being fashionable for her music and moderately well known for her writings. Her letters were edited in English translation in 1994 and... |
| Reception | Helen Craik | Apparently the only journal to notice Adelaide de Narbonne was the Anti-Jacobin in January 1800: it wished that Craik had not left her own political stance inexplicit. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32. 213 |
| Reception | Eliza Fenwick | Secresy had six reviews in 1795; EF
wrote much later that they blamed the principles but commended the style & Imagination. Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press. 71 |
| Reception | Alice Meynell | AM
's diligent recuperation of women's literary history nonetheless marks her as a predecessor of some of Woolf's feminist concerns. They both wrote about some of the same women, including, for example, Jonathan Swift's Stella... |
| Reception | Ella D'Arcy | EDA
's slim output has made it easier for posterity to ignore her. But both Arnold Bennett
and Ford Madox Ford
thought highly of her. Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. “Ella D’Arcy: A Commentary with a Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol. 35 , No. 2, pp. 179-11. 204 Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="j">The Yellow Book</span> and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press. 236 |
| Reception | Ann Jebb | George Dyer
warmly praised AJ
in his poem On Liberty, which appeared in his Poems of 1792. Since he also praised Wollstonecraft
's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Charlotte Smith
,... |
| Reception | Anne Conway | Two of AC
's most recent editors, Coudert
and Corse
, more forcefully assert that hers is the most interesting and original philosophical treatise written by a woman in the seventeenth century Conway, Anne. “Introduction”. The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse, Cambridge University Press, p. vii - xxxiii. xxix |
| 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 | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Barbauld probably wrote two anonymous articles on the recently-dead Mary Wollstonecraft
in the Monthly Visitor, 1798. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| 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 | Virginia Woolf | The Nation and Athenæum printed VW
's essay on Mary Wollstonecraft
. Woolf, Virginia, and Michèle Barrett. Women and Writing. Women’s Press. 96 |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Ann Batten Cristall | Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld
and her brother
, Ann Jebb
, the future Amelia Opie
, Anna Maria Porter
, Mary Wollstonecraft
and her sister, Mary Hays
and her sister, a Mrs Spence who... |
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