Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
Textual Features
Edith Sitwell
This book depends on poking fun at its subjects, and invites its readers to join in Sitwell's superior amusement. Some of her subjects deserve better, like Margaret Fuller
, who (despite the adjective in the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Smith
Sales were unexpectedly brisk. Reviews were positive and most emphasised that the stories here were true.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Smith, edited by Michael Garner et al., Pickering and Chatto, p. xxix - xxxvii.
xxxvi
The Critical Review, however, thought they would be equally interesting whether they should turn out to be...
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
(especially...
Literary responses
Charlotte Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft
, reviewing Ethelinde for the Analytical Review, praised Smith's sharp eye, as a member of the upper class herself, for that class's failings. The Critical praised her great merit overall (in story...
Literary responses
Charlotte Smith
The Critical Review, reviewing this book, called CS
a sister-queen
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 548
Wollstonecraft
, probable author of the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Smith
This epistolary novel is highly political; its preface asserts a woman's right to interest in politics. The letters in it span the period from June 1790 to February 1792, tracking the events of the French...
Literary responses
Charlotte Smith
Again the Analytical reviewer may have been Wollstonecraft
, and if so she was better pleased than before: another novel, written with her usual flow of language and happy discrimination of manners. . ....
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Smith
Here, under the rubric of writing only scenes of modern life and possible events and eschewing the craze for the wild, the terrible, and the supernatural,
Smith, Charlotte. The Young Philosopher. Editor Kraft, Elizabeth, University Press of Kentucky.
5
CS
once more questions the social structure and...
Friends, Associates
Robert Southey
Having early in his life admired writers like Mary Wollstonecraft
and Charlotte Smith
, he later numbered women writers such as Anna Eliza Bray
among his close friends.
Literary responses
Germaine de Staël
Mary Wollstonecraft
gave this work a poor review.
Literary responses
Mariana Starke
A good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical, says: This interesting tale is told in easy flowing measures, and many sentiments occur that do honour to the writer's heart.. It...
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...
