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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 | 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. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic... |
| Literary responses | Mary Hays | William Frend
had read the work in manuscript and been much pleased, though he took the liberty of suggesting a few revisions. Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen. 244 |
| Textual Production | Mary Hays | MH
composed an unsigned obituary of Mary Wollstonecraft
for the Monthly Magazine (published in September 1797). Her signed eulogy of Wollstonecraft appeared in the Annual Necrology, 1797- 98, published by Richard Phillips
in 1800. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon. 112 Feminist Companion Archive. Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1. xvii |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney
's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty... |
| Reception | Hildegarde of Bingen | In recent times she has made a rapid transition from being unknown to being fashionable for her music and moderately well known for her writings. Her letters were edited in English translation in 1994 and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Holcroft | In May 1794 Thomas Holcroft was indicted for high treason and spent time in prison; but he was acquitted at his trial. During the nine years between the death of Fanny's mother and his next... |
| Occupation | Fanny Holcroft | Lady Mountcashel as a girl had had Mary Wollstonecraft
as her governess; Wollstonecraft too had been dismissed from this post, though she had preserved her friendship with her pupil Margaret, later Lady Mountcashel. FH
's... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Hutton | Jane Oakwood's brother has only one woman author (Elizabeth Inchbald
) in his library; Jane on the other hand is a mine of information and opinion about several generations of a female literary tradition... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Hutton | Hutton transcribed onto the flyleaf of her own copy of Oakwood Hall (volume 3) an unattributed opinion, perhaps given before publication. This critic calls the book clever so far as it is a novel, and... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Inchbald | She was warm in her admiration for Godwin's Caleb Williams. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 95-7 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Inchbald | The novel was greeted in the Analytical Review, probably by Wollstonecraft
, as also in the Critical and the Monthly, with carefully discriminated and detailed praise. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 369-70 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 535-6 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Inchbald | Nature and Art was praised in the Monthly and Critical Review, with polite endorsement of EI
's reputation. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 16 (1796): 325 |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
here traces the shift from eighteenth-century tolerance and scepticism to Victorian religious earnestness. She makes good use of writing during these periods, including writing by women (novels, diaries, letters, memoirs), showing herself a highly... |
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