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.
Stipple engraving of Mary Wollstonecraft by James Heath after the painting by John Opie. She is wearing a light, loosely-fitting gown with high waist and a folded cap like a turban.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Strutt
The book had coloured illustrations. ES adopts here a relaxed, informal tone. She pays more attention than formerly to scenery (though she insists that only truly personal responses are interesting), but also to the humdrum...
politics Ann Martin Taylor
According to her son Isaac, AMT harboured a pungent dislike of certain of the female sympathizers with the French Revolution, inclusive of Mary Wollstonecraft .
Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge.
132
Textual Production Ann Martin Taylor
Although she scribbled verse (and satirical verse at that) from her teens, ATG had early in life a decisive feeling of antagonism towards authorship as such, probably attributable to her pungent dislike
Taylor, Isaac, editor. The Family Pen. Jackson, Walford and Hodder.
18
of Mary Wollstonecraft
Textual Production Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
CET published in four parts The Wrongs of Woman, an attack on the conditions of women workers in London.
The title had been used for Mary Wollstonecraft 's last, unfinished novel, published in...
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...
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
for ST 's purpose. Wollstonecraft too, in the Analytical judged them useful and highly praiseworthy as well as...
Literary responses Sarah Trimmer
A single-paragraph review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft , observes that by now ST must be an expert in her benevolent attempt to improve the poor,
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering.
7: 123
and that asking questions is a good idea...
Intertextuality and Influence Flora Tristan
One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage.
Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books.
198
FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Jane Vardill
AJV translates from Sappho , Anacreon , Alcæus , Theocritus , Horace , and more recent poets: Petrarch and Camoens . She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute
Textual Production Helen Waddell
HW provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke , Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works...
Textual Features Priscilla Wakefield
PW welcomes the way that Adam Smith and other Scottish Enlightenment writers have made womanhood a branch of philosophy, not a little interesting.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press.
106
Unlike Wollstonecraft , she sees women's sphere as naturally limited and...
Literary responses Susanna Watts
The Critical Review thought The Wonderful Travels of Prince Fan-Feredin offered its readers a pleasant and harmless laugh
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 11 (1794): 356
at pastoral swains. The Gentleman's Magazine was respectful, calling SW an ornament...
Education Fay Weldon
Fay attended another progressive establishment, the co-educational Burgess Hill School , which she found absurd, not only noisy and disorderly but actively anti-academic. The best thing about it was being taught English briefly by the...
Textual Features Helena Wells
HW says she has more respect for the upper classes than some of our modern reformists.
Wells, Helena. Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females. L. Peacock; W. Creech.
7
She recommends reading poetry and history, not novels: Novel reading tends to enervate the mind. We rise from...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Helena Wells
HW 's narrator represents a youthful reader exclaiming in disgust, And this is called a novel? . . . Why there is not an old castle to be pried into, nor a rusty key found...

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