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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alice Meynell | Many of the essays reprinted here focus on women writers who were, to put it mildly, little known to the public in the 1940s. These included: Anna Seward
and Joanna Baillie
, as well as... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ray Strachey | The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft
's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale
, Josephine Butler
, John Stuart Mill
, Sophia Jex-Blake
, and many others. Its heroine... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Hamilton | Again EH
takes the radicals as her target. The phrase modern philosophers was in common use: the Gentleman's Magazine had turned it on Mary Wollstonecraft in reviewing her first major political work. Yet Hamilton makes... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helena Wells | HW
's narrator represents a youthful reader exclaiming in disgust, And this is called a novel? . . . Why there is not an old castle to be pried into, nor a rusty key found... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hester Mulso Chapone | HMC
was still reading and commenting on others' works into her old age. She read and remarked on Hester Piozzi
, Charlotte Smith
, Edward Gibbon
, Erasmus Darwin
's The Loves of the Plants... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Hutton | Jane Oakwood's brother has only one woman author (Elizabeth Inchbald
) in his library; Jane on the other hand is a mine of information and opinion about several generations of a female literary tradition... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Amelia Opie | |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Katharine Elwood | Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Griselda Murray
, Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford
, Hester Lynch Piozzi |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Lee | The preface to this book, newly written for its publication, is SL
's major critical statement about the woman's literary tradition and her own place in it. She mentions the hostile reception of her own... |
| 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... |
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