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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Eliza Fenwick | This epistolary novel, set mainly in a castle with secret passages connecting to a monastic ruin , deals with strictly contemporary issues of power and independence. It reflects the influence of EF
's friend Wollstonecraft |
| Textual Features | Samuel Johnson | Misella (one of many women whose struggles are foregrounded in the Rambler though the medium of fictitious female correspondents) was first seduced by a man she trusted, and has since known the depths of poverty... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Fenwick | EF
's letters, vividly written, full of ironic self-awareness, make an excellent source for her life. They reflect her powerful feelings for her children, ambivalent feelings about her experience of authorship, her continuing interest in... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Green | The novel itself has elements of a spoof on the gothic, a didactic courtship plot, a social satire of the dialogue kind associated with Elizabeth Hamilton
and Thomas Love Peacock
, a sentimental melodrama, a... |
| Textual Features | Eva Figes | A wide spread of social institutions and systems of knowledge interests EF
: she looks at the force of gendered attitudes in theology, commerce, education, psychology and philosophy. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Textual Features | Sophia King | This novel about the genesis of evil is told in the first person by its wicked yet pitiable male narrator, presented as a man of strong intellect and strong feeling, whose first words are What... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Fletcher | EF
's arrangement is chronological, with original documents printed as they occur or are relevant. Her recall is excellent, her observations and analysis acute, her character-drawing perceptive, and her style pithy. She freely and candidly... |
| 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 Features | Dorothy Wordsworth | What she does not write may sometimes be regretted. She recorded the arrival of Mary Wollstonecraft
's life, etc. (her Posthumous Works, including The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria) on 14 April 1798... |
| Textual Features | Mary Robinson | MR
opens her feminist volume on the way women have been valued for being decorative but despised as regards mind, and pays tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft
. As examples of modern abuses she cites unequal... |
| Textual Features | Julia Kristeva | JK
's essay distinguishes three phases or generations in feminism. The first phase (whose opening can be dated from Wollstonecraft
or from another pioneering feminist text) is associated with linear time and with agitation for... |
| Textual Features | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
produces a treatise rather than a polemic, using a studied moderation of tone. She deploys an artful range of styles and her material is drawn from biology, history, sociology, economics, and in a large... |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Anna Margaretta Larpent | This later diary, generally written daily at any odd moment, provides indexing of special events which reveals AML
's methodical character. Occasional months are missing here and there. The diarist offers penetrating comment on a... |
| Textual Features | Isabella Banks | The Neglected Wife describes a husband neglectful of his promise to cherish his wife and guard her from blighting care, or undermining grief, Banks, Isabella, and George Linnaeus Banks. Daisies in the Grass. R. Hardwicke. 118 |
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