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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Antonia Fraser | She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter
and published in later 1976. Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010. 62 |
| Publishing | Mathilde Blind | MB
published in most of the leading journals of her day including the Athenæum, to which she contributed along with her friend Helen Zimmern
. Critic Marysa Demoor
considers MB
's and others' access... |
| Publishing | Samuel Johnson | The work was translated into Spanish by Inés Joyes y Blake
as El principe de Abisinia and published at Madrid by 25 May 1798, bound together with Blake's proto-feminist, Wollstonecraft
-influenced tract, the Apologia de... |
| Publishing | George Eliot | The Leader carried GE
's important short article Margaret Fuller
and Mary Wollstonecraft, another trenchant examination of women's position in society. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. 143 |
| Publishing | Mary Shelley | During this year MS
helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci. Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelleys Mythological Dramas Midas and ProserpineWomens Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 385-11. 388 |
| Publishing | Virginia Woolf | The Nation and Athenæum printed VW
's essay on Mary Wollstonecraft
. Woolf, Virginia, and Michèle Barrett. Women and Writing. Women’s Press, 1979. 96 |
| 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, 2006. 255 Ferguson, Moira, editor. First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578-1799. Indiana University Press, 1985. 412-13 Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993. 109, 111 Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, 2004, 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, 1 Mar.–31 May 2004, pp. 415-34. 426 |
| Publishing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Barbauld probably wrote two anonymous articles on the recently-dead Mary Wollstonecraft
in the Monthly Visitor, 1798. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Publishing | Eliza Fenwick | As Lissa Paul has pointed out, she wrote not long after the appearance in earlier 1794 of the Second Report from the Committee of Secrecy, a progress report on government snooping into private affairs... |
| Publishing | Ann Batten Cristall | Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld
and her brother
, Ann Jebb
, the future Amelia Opie
, Anna Maria Porter
, Mary Wollstonecraft
and her sister, Mary Hays
and her sister, a Mrs Spence who... |
| 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... |
| Reception | Ella D'Arcy | EDA
's slim output has made it easier for posterity to ignore her. But both Arnold Bennett
and Ford Madox Ford
thought highly of her. Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. “Ella D’Arcy: A Commentary with a Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol. 35 , No. 2, 1992, pp. 179-11. 204 Mix, Katherine Lyon. A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors. Greenwood Press, 1969. 236 |
| 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... |
| Reception | Anne Conway | Two of AC
's most recent editors, Coudert
and Corse
, more forcefully assert that hers is the most interesting and original philosophical treatise written by a woman in the seventeenth century Conway, Anne. “Introduction”. The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. vii - xxxiii. xxix |
| Reception | Helen Craik | Apparently the only journal to notice Adelaide de Narbonne was the Anti-Jacobin in January 1800: it wished that Craik had not left her own political stance inexplicit. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32. 213 |
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