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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Occupation | William Godwin | The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson
: visitors included Germaine de Staël
. It remained, however... |
| Occupation | Fanny Holcroft | Lady Mountcashel as a girl had had Mary Wollstonecraft
as her governess; Wollstonecraft too had been dismissed from this post, though she had preserved her friendship with her pupil Margaret, later Lady Mountcashel. FH
's... |
| Occupation | John Milton | As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden
praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime... |
| Literary responses | Phebe Gibbes | This novel aroused much interest. One letter was reprinted almost entire, without attribution, on 2 July 1789 in the Aberdeen Magazine as a Picture of the Mode of living at Calcutta. In a letter from... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Bonhote | This book was highly successful. But an Analytical reviewer in January 1792 (who may have been Wollstonecraft
) was not impressed, finding trite sentiments expressed in bald language Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 414 |
| Literary responses | Olaudah Equiano | This book was an immediate success in Britain, and in the USA it significantly influenced the emancipation movement. Equiano, Olaudah. “Introduction, etc”. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, edited by Angelo Costanzo, Peterborough, ON, pp. 7-37. 11, 7 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | According to Patrica Spacks
, CPG
displays no real sense of personal identity in The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She denies the implicit egotism of autobiography by insisting that the self is less... |
| Literary responses | Clara Reeve | It seems that CR
's outline of her abandoned plan for linked tales dealing with national character was an inspiration for Harriet Lee
's similar design in her Canterbury Tales. Apart from this, Reeve's... |
| Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Beverly Lyon Clark
, who wrote an introduction to this book and thought extremely highly of it, argued that the neglect of it stemmed from its belonging not just to one but to several under-appreciated... |
| Literary responses | Mary Hays | William Frend
had read the work in manuscript and been much pleased, though he took the liberty of suggesting a few revisions. Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen. 244 |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The Critical Review gave high praise to this novel's characters, and said not many works of fiction excelled it, although it found the plot weak and in parts derivative: the wandering of Calista is perhaps... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Trimmer | The Gentleman's Magazine gave the cards three lines of praise, as admirably well calculated Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 59 (1789): 445 |
| Literary responses | Hannah Cowley | Wollstonecraft
's very short review in the January 1792 Analytical ignored anything controversial, but noted the play's lively sallies . . . evanescent graces. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 443 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | An extensive notice, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical Review, says this novel is distinguished among others by its quality, yet shares their general tendency to debauch the mind Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 26 |
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