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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 Lennox | Euphemia was reviewed by Thomas Ogle
in the Monthly Review, and in the Critical, the Analytical, and the European Magazine. Ogle was moderately laudatory, the Critical both laudatory and valedictory. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 511 |
| Textual Production | Eliza Lynn Linton | ELL
supported a change in the law about women and property, even though she did not support female suffrage. She was writing on women's issues, sometimes quite sympathetically, long before the notorious The Girl of... |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | Friends she acquired at about this time included her new husband's sister, Elizabeth Arnold
(who fought the slanders after CM
's death by testifying to her irreproachable conduct in traditional female roles, and her Christian... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Macaulay | This reflective, original work had an important influence on Mary Wollstonecraft
. Wollstonecraft
wrote the notice of it in the Analytical Review, calling the author the woman of the greatest abilities . .... |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The Critical Review gave high praise to this novel's characters, and said not many works of fiction excelled it, although it found the plot weak and in parts derivative: the wandering of Calista is perhaps... |
| Birth | Katharine S. Macquoid | She was baptised on 23 February at St Pancras Old Church (in whose graveyard Mary Wollstonecraft
was buried). Her baptismal record spelled her name Catherine. The International Genealogical Index records another Catherine Thomas born later... |
| politics | Harriet Martineau | For all the influences that might have been expected to predispose Martineau to admire the work of Mary Wollstonecraft
, she apparently despised the earlier writer as insufficiently self-sufficient. She called Wollstonecraft, with all her... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alice Meynell | Many of the essays reprinted here focus on women writers who were, to put it mildly, little known to the public in the 1940s. These included: Anna Seward
and Joanna Baillie
, as well as... |
| Reception | Alice Meynell | AM
's diligent recuperation of women's literary history nonetheless marks her as a predecessor of some of Woolf's feminist concerns. They both wrote about some of the same women, including, for example, Jonathan Swift's Stella... |
| politics | John Milton | This is an argument which defends Milton's behaviour, and later Milton critics have offered different defences of him in the light of different ideas about what constitutes good behaviour in matters of gender. Meanwhile a... |
| Occupation | John Milton | As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden
praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime... |
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron
's Childe Harold. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 133, 152 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | More lays her heaviest emphasis on the need for observing propriety. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 195 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 117 |
| Textual Features | Hannah More | HM
writes her Hints in full political consciousness of the likelihood that she is trying to shape a future ruler. Her claim to have remained uninfluenced by Wollstonecraft
or Catharine Macaulay
(whom she called patriotic... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | HM
's wife-seeking Coelebs is said to be modelled on John Scandrett Harford
, and her ideal heroine, Lucilla Stanley, on Louisa Davis, whom Harford eventually married. Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky. 154n83 |
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