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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Intertextuality and Influence Bessie Rayner Parkes
In a section devoted to the physical development of women, BRP criticizes the unrealistic, senseless, and erroneous
Parkes, Bessie Rayner. Remarks on the Education of Girls. J. Chapman.
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standards applied to women's beauty in a manner that strikes a modern reader as far ahead of...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Burney
Wollstonecraft 's tacit presence here extends beyond the portrait of Elinor. Juliet, it turns out, is fleeing from an intolerable marriage, like the heroine of The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria. English law condemns...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Hatton
The work is headed with a motto: Feeling, not genius, prompts the lay,
Feminist Companion Archive.
and a stanza from James Beattie 's The Minstrel. Contents include both Nova Scotia and Inscription for a temple, in a...
Intertextuality and Influence Hannah More
More lays her heaviest emphasis on the need for observing propriety.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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She expresses her belief in original sin, and devotes a chapter to human corruption; but this deals also with salvation.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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While she...
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.
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In some sense the work is feminist...
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.
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An Apology closing the volume speaks of SWM 's disappointments and distresses (which are often mentioned, though unspecified, in her work) especially...
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...
Health Adrienne Rich
After her third delivery she decided to be sterilised, though she met with social disapproval even from nurses caring for her in hospital: Had yourself spayed, did you?
O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3.
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She later recalled her isolation during...
Friends, Associates Catharine Macaulay
Friends she acquired at about this time included her new husband's sister, Elizabeth Arnold (who fought the slanders after CM 's death by testifying to her irreproachable conduct in traditional female roles, and her Christian...

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