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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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...
Textual Production Judith Sargent Murray
This original version, which she copied into her Repository of her works, was written before Mary Wollstonecraft (then aged only about twenty) had published anything. Its ideas go back to a revisionist letter about Adam...
Textual Production Marjorie Bowen
MB , as George R. Preedy, published a critical biography entitled This Shining Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , 1759-1797.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 153. Gale Research.
153: 41
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1829 (20 February 1937): 126
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.
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of Mary Wollstonecraft
Textual Production Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF wrote an introduction to a new edition of Mary Wollstonecraft 's Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, pp. 184-02.
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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 Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
She said she had made notes towards this project, but thought the task too big for her (and that it would have had to be begun sooner). Burke had already attracted two indignant answers: Wollstonecraft
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
Textual Production Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ took occasion, in a review of Joanna Baillie for the Athenæum, to praise not only Baillie but also Ann Radcliffe , Elizabeth Inchbald , and Mary Wollstonecraft .
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 105-18.
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Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
By later 1792 ALB had composed what might have been her principal feminist text, an ingenious forecast of what women might be to like a century into the future—presumably women emancipated by a Wollstonecraftian
Textual Production Maria Jane Jewsbury
After MJJ 's death, Anne Katharine Elwood reported at second hand a story that Jewsbury intended to update and recast Mary Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which she thought could...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
The importance of politics in ALB 's journalism is shown by her declining an invitation from Maria Edgeworth in 1804 to associate herself with a journal written entirely by women, on the grounds that the...
Textual Production Michèle Roberts
MR 's Fair Exchange, a historical novel, dealt with episodes in the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft , William Wordsworth , and Annette Vallon .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34.
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Textual Production Mary Shelley
Laurette's parents were not married to each other: they were living under the Wollstonecraftian names of Mr and Mrs Mason because Lord Mountcashel would not divorce his wife to allow her to marry George Henry Tighe
Textual Production Mary Shelley
But she found herself interrupted by illness and distracted by financial battles on behalf of her son, and by renewed attacks in the press on her mother 's reputation. She now expected another year to...

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