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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | The Analytical's review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, takes MR
to task for over-reliance on her natural gifts. From carelessness, it says, her sentences are often confused, entangled with superfluous words, half-expressed sentiments, and... |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | They both took to wearing their hair cropped in the 1790s when this was fashionable, and persisted when the fashion was over. Since they also wore beaver hats (which was more acceptable for women in... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | MR
's title is a complex literary allusion. The tragic heroine of Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, 1703, tells her unwanted fiancé that their hearts were never paired above . . . joined... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Radcliffe | The timing suggests influence from Wollstonecraft
's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Some of Barbauld's acutest social comment was linked with her pedagogy. Fashion, a Vision, probably written about 1792 for her first private paying pupil, and picking up some ideas from Wollstonecraft
's Vindication,... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | The title-page quotes romantic, melancholy lines from Byron
's Childe Harold. Bottorff, William K., and Sarah Wentworth Morton. “Introduction”. My Mind and its Thoughts, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 5-16. 12 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
focuses on the impossibility for middle-class women of earning an honest living, and the gradual male takeover of traditionally female jobs. She laments the fact that men no longer offer women adequate protection, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | This work was controversial. William Enfield
in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 162-3 |
| 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 | Jane Hume Clapperton | In her youth she had been part of a circle that included Charles Bray
and George Eliot
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 166 |
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