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.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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