Mary Wollstonecraft

27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797

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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Literary responses	Ann Radcliffe	Samuel Taylor Coleridge reviewed this novel somewhat belatedly for the Critical Review. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 81 The review in the Analytical, probably Wollstonecraft 's, offered strong endorsement. AR 's uncommon talent for gothic, it said, had...
Literary responses	Susanna Haswell Rowson	The volume received a damning telegraphic review in the Analytical (perhaps by Wollstonecraft ), which reads, in its entirety, Weak prosaic attempts, without the images or harmony of poetry. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 88 The Critical agreed that...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Inchbald	The Analytical reviewer, probably Wollstonecraft , was unimpressed: insipid dialogues . . . the characters are uninteresting caricatures, and the incidents, childish tricks. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 166
Literary responses	Olive Schreiner	The book is a landmark text. In an introduction to an edition of 1968, Doris Lessing (who first read it when she was fourteen) identified it as one of the few rare books ....
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More , Anna Seward , and Elizabeth Carter , who found some passages amazingly sublime. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 193 The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
Literary responses	Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis	English reviewers, for instance in the Gentleman's Magazine, were ready with their praise. Dow, Gillian. “The British Reception of Madame de Genlis’s Writings for Children: Plays and Tales of Instruction and Delight”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 29 , No. 3, pp. 367-81. 374 Jane Austen implied in a letter of 1800 that the first volume of this work had left her mind stored...
Literary responses	Jane West	When the fourth volume appeared in 1789, the Critical found it heavy, languid and uninteresting, and judged the serial publication to have been a mistake. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 68 (1789): 495 Andrew Becket in the Monthly and Mary Wollstonecraft
Literary responses	Hester Mulso Chapone	Her brother John wrote of the Praises that resound on all Sides following the publication of this book, though he regretted that reviewers, in praising the moral content, had ignored the literary style. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 231 Recently Sylvia Harcstark Myers
Literary responses	Charlotte Lennox	Euphemia was reviewed by Thomas Ogle in the Monthly Review, and in the Critical, the Analytical, and the European Magazine. Ogle was moderately laudatory, the Critical both laudatory and valedictory. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 511
Literary responses	Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis	SFG 's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to...
Literary responses	Jane West	This work had the unusual distinction of earning approving comments from both Austen and Wollstonecraft . The contrasted sisters are generally seen as an important source for Austen 's Sense and Sensibility, and the...
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 and noting that many better...
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	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 An early reviewer, Mary Wollstonecraft in the Analytical Review, noted some inconsistency between the...

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