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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | She followed this the next year with another furious sixteen-page pamphlet (of which OCLC lists only two extant copies). Its inordinately lengthy title sets the tone: Extraordinary Narrative of an Outrageous Violation of Liberty and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | MR
's title is a complex literary allusion. The tragic heroine of Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, 1703, tells her unwanted fiancé that their hearts were never paired above . . . joined... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
| 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... |
| 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 .... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Seward | AS
's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi
about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only... |
| Anthologization | Evelyn Sharp | ES
contributed an entry on Mary Wollstonecraft to a large volume edited by A. Barratt Brown
, entitled Great Democrats. Clark, Beverly Lyon, and Evelyn Sharp. “Introduction”. The Making of a Schoolgirl, Oxford University Press, pp. 3-23. 23 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | Laurette's parents were not married to each other: they were living under the Wollstonecraftian
names of Mr and Mrs Mason because Lord Mountcashel would not divorce his wife to allow her to marry George Henry Tighe |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | But she found herself interrupted by illness and distracted by financial battles on behalf of her son, and by renewed attacks in the press on her mother
's reputation. She now expected another year to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
, over her mother
's grave in St Pancras churchyard, told Percy Bysshe Shelley
that she loved him. Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. xv |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | Fanny Imlay
, sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
and elder daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
, killed herself in a boarding-house in Swansea. Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 127 |
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