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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
| Textual Features | Ann Bridge | Though the authors declare on their opening page that the modern need is to supplement the exhaustive Baedeker with a selective guidebook (something designed to tell travellers what they cannot afford to miss), they actually... |
| Textual Features | Hannah Brand | This heroic tragedy (full title Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade) is given with passages restored that were omitted in performance. It is set in 1456 (three years after Constantinople, capital of the Christian... |
| 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. 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen | The book markedly refrains from celebrating Mary Wollstonecraft
as a champion of women's rights or from glorifying her exploits in any way. MB
states firmly that Wollstonecraft's most famous book, A Vindication of the Rights... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Bonhote | This book was highly successful. But an Analytical reviewer in January 1792 (who may have been Wollstonecraft
) was not impressed, finding trite sentiments expressed in bald language Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 414 |
| Publishing | Mathilde Blind | MB
published in most of the leading journals of her day including the Athenæum, to which she contributed along with her friend Helen Zimmern
. Critic Marysa Demoor
considers MB
's and others' access... |
| politics | Susanna Blamire | Several among SB
's poems reveal her sympathy (a feeling not sentimental but based on close personal knowledge and contact acquired as a medical visitor) for the harsh and arguably deteriorating conditions of the rural... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Matilda Betham | Catharine Macaulay
, she insists, was pleasing and delicate in her person, and a woman of great feeling and indisputable abilities, though the democratic spirit of her writings has made them fall into disrepute. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Bennett | The Critical Review thought this the first of AMB
's novels to achieve excellence. This time, it said, the intricate story was well woven (at least in the first two volumes) and the plot and... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | The notice in the Analytical Review, which may have been written by Wollstonecraft
, is curiously unenthusiastic. Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 416-17 |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Anne Barnard | Auld Robin Gray always enjoyed great popularity, and many hearers supposed LAB
's version to be traditional. One biographer writes, Antique ladies, with confident but erroneous memories, professed to have heard it often when they... |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's early fame is exemplified in the project of a well-known London printer (reported in January 1787) for a series of plates illustrating works by the most celebrated British Poets. His list began with... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Her close friends at this period included Mary
and Joseph Priestley
and a number of young women of her own age. She was particularly attracted by a pair of sisters who got themselves barred from... |
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