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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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| Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
here traces the shift from eighteenth-century tolerance and scepticism to Victorian religious earnestness. She makes good use of writing during these periods, including writing by women (novels, diaries, letters, memoirs), showing herself a highly... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | This use of instruction cards was innovative, at least in England. ST
may or may not have known of the cards issued by Sarah Scott
and Lady Barbara Montagu
in April 1759 (which failed as... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | Laurette's parents were not married to each other: they were living under the Wollstonecraftian
names of Mr and Mrs Mason because Lord Mountcashel would not divorce his wife to allow her to marry George Henry Tighe |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She said she had made notes towards this project, but thought the task too big for her (and that it would have had to be begun sooner). Burke had already attracted two indignant answers: Wollstonecraft |
| Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
's Fair Exchange, a historical novel, dealt with episodes in the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft
, William Wordsworth
, and Annette Vallon
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. qtd. in Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, 2004, pp. 119-34. 130 |
| Textual Production | Marjorie Bowen | MB
, as George R. Preedy, published a critical biography entitled This Shining Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
, 1759-1797. Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 153. Gale Research, 1995. 153: 41 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1829 (20 February 1937): 126 |
| 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 | 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 |
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