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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| death | William Godwin | WG
, novelist, political philosopher, widower of Mary Wollstonecraft
, and father of Mary Shelley
, died in London. Sherburn, George, and William Godwin. “Introduction”. Caleb Williams, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, p. vii - xx. xvii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | William Godwin | He was already famous (or, to some, infamous) for his writings when he and Mary Wollstonecraft
became lovers in August 1796. They married on 29 March 1797 (although both of them disapproved of the institution... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | AG
responded to what she acknowledged as Mary Wollstonecraft
's considerable powers, feeling and rectitude of intention Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 268 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | The novel itself has elements of a spoof on the gothic, a didactic courtship plot, a social satire of the dialogue kind associated with Elizabeth Hamilton
and Thomas Love Peacock
, a sentimental melodrama, a... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Josepha Hale | SJH
does in the main a fine job in her coverage of British women writers, having something to say even about the extremely obscure. Dorothea Primrose Campbell
, for instance (who was living in poverty... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Hamilton | Again EH
takes the radicals as her target. The phrase modern philosophers was in common use: the Gentleman's Magazine had turned it on Mary Wollstonecraft in reviewing her first major political work. Yet Hamilton makes... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hands | A brief notice in the Analytical Review written (probably) by Mary Wollstonecraft
early in the year after publication treated EH
fairly scathingly. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 203 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The work is headed with a motto: Feeling, not genius, prompts the lay, Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Literary responses | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | The review in the Critical reflected annoyance that the author had (oddly, since she had on balance been favourably treated by this journal) called it ill-natured. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 67 (1789): 397 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | MH
first met Mary Wollstonecraft
at the home of Joseph Johnson
. Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1. xvi |
| Publishing | Mary Hays | MH
contributed often to Richard Phillips
's new Monthly Magazine. During 1796 also, she began reviewing books for the Analytical, edited by Mary Wollstonecraft
, signing herself V.V. Luria, Gina M. Mary Hays (1759-1843): The Growth of a Woman’s Mind. Ashgate. 255 Ferguson, Moira, editor. First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578-1799. Indiana University Press. 412-13 Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon. 109, 111 Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1. xvi Waters, Mary A. “’The First of a New Genus’: Mary Wollstonecraft as Literary Critic and Mentor to Mary Hays”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 37 , No. 3, pp. 415-34. 426 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | The publisher was Knott
. The title-page quotes Socrates
and Burns
. The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney
. MH
's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays. Hays, Mary. Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous. T. Knott. prelims Feminist Companion Archive. |
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