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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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 | George Eliot | Miss Arrowpoint saves herself, while Mirah, the young Jewish woman whom Daniel eventually marries, needs him to save her from a suicide attempt reminiscent of that of Mary Wollstonecraft
. Gwendolen, at the climactic moment... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | By later 1792 ALB
had composed what might have been her principal feminist text, an ingenious forecast of what women might be to like a century into the future—presumably women emancipated by a Wollstonecraftian |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | But she found herself interrupted by illness and distracted by financial battles on behalf of her son, and by renewed attacks in the press on her mother
's reputation. She now expected another year to... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The importance of politics in ALB
's journalism is shown by her declining an invitation from Maria Edgeworth
in 1804 to associate herself with a journal written entirely by women, on the grounds that the... |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | HW
provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable
reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke
, Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works... |
Textual Production | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
wrote an introduction to a new edition of Mary Wollstonecraft
's Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, 1983, pp. 184-02. 184-5 |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | An unacknowledged example was Wollstonecraft
's The Female Reader. The project of rivalling Enfield was ambitious; furthermore, the association of women with public speaking was subversive. He had included only one woman (herself) among... |
Textual Production | Eliza Lynn Linton | ELL
supported a change in the law about women and property, even though she did not support female suffrage. She was writing on women's issues, sometimes quite sympathetically, long before the notorious The Girl of... |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | This original version, which she copied into her Repository of her works, was written before Mary Wollstonecraft
(then aged only about twenty) had published anything. Its ideas go back to a revisionist letter about Adam... |
Textual Production | Mary Hays | MH
composed an unsigned obituary of Mary Wollstonecraft
for the Monthly Magazine (published in September 1797). Her signed eulogy of Wollstonecraft appeared in the Annual Necrology, 1797- 98, published by Richard Phillips
in 1800. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993. 112 Feminist Companion Archive. 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. xvii |
Textual Production | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | CET
published in four parts The Wrongs of Woman, an attack on the conditions of women workers in London. The title had been used for Mary Wollstonecraft
's last, unfinished novel, published in... |
Textual Production | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
took occasion, in a review of Joanna Baillie
for the Athenæum, to praise not only Baillie but also Ann Radcliffe
, Elizabeth Inchbald
, and Mary Wollstonecraft
. Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, 2000, pp. 105-18. 115 |
Textual Production | Maria Jane Jewsbury | After MJJ
's death, Anne Katharine Elwood
reported at second hand a story that Jewsbury intended to update and recast Mary Wollstonecraft
's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which she thought could... |
Textual Production | Ann Martin Taylor | Although she scribbled verse (and satirical verse at that) from her teens, ATG had early in life a decisive feeling of antagonism towards authorship as such, probably attributable to her pungent dislike Taylor, Isaac, the younger, editor. The Family Pen. Jackson, Walford and Hodder, 1867. 18 |
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