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.
Stipple engraving of Mary Wollstonecraft by James Heath after the painting by John Opie. She is wearing a light, loosely-fitting gown with high waist and a folded cap like a turban.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
She followed this the next year with another furious sixteen-page pamphlet (of which OCLC lists only two extant copies). Its inordinately lengthy title sets the tone: Extraordinary Narrative of an Outrageous Violation of Liberty and...
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...
Literary responses Susanna Haswell Rowson
The volume received a damning telegraphic review in the Analytical (perhaps by Wollstonecraft ), which reads, in its entirety, Weak prosaic attempts, without the images or harmony of poetry.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering.
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The Critical agreed that...
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...
Textual Features Susanna Haswell Rowson
Contents include lives of Elizabeth Singer Rowe and of Mary Wollstonecraft (the latter reprinted from the Monthly Visitor of London). Among the poems (some of them specifically attributed to SHR ) are one entitled...
Literary responses Olive Schreiner
The book is a landmark text. In an introduction to an edition of 1968, Doris Lessing (who first read it when she was fourteen) identified it as one of the few rare books ....
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Seward
AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...
Anthologization Evelyn Sharp
ES contributed an entry on Mary Wollstonecraft to a large volume edited by A. Barratt Brown , entitled Great Democrats.
Clark, Beverly Lyon, and Evelyn Sharp. “Introduction”. The Making of a Schoolgirl, Oxford University Press, pp. 3-23.
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Literary responses Evelyn Sharp
Beverly Lyon Clark , who wrote an introduction to this book and thought extremely highly of it, argued that the neglect of it stemmed from its belonging not just to one but to several under-appreciated...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , over her mother 's grave in St Pancras churchyard, told Percy Bysshe Shelley that she loved him.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
Fanny Imlay , sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and elder daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft , killed herself in a boarding-house in Swansea.
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown.
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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Shelley
MS recorded in her diary reading Memoirs which are almost certainly those of her mother written and published by her father .
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
MS 's mother, feminist author and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft , died eleven days after giving her birth.
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
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In the family home while Mary was growing up, Wollstonecraft's portrait was still prominently displayed.
Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 297-08.
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Friends, Associates Mary Shelley
One of MS 's close friends, Lady Mountcashel or Mrs Mason, had been a pupil of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft , while Wollstonecraft was a governess. Lady Mountcashel began calling herself Mrs Mason (the...
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 Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span&gt”;. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 385-11.
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She worked on her own fiction to distract herself when prostrated by grief after the death of her...

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