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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Jane West | When the fourth volume appeared in 1789, the Critical found it heavy, languid and uninteresting, and judged the serial publication to have been a mistake. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 68 (1789): 495 |
Literary responses | Jane West | |
Author summary | Anna Wheeler | Anna Wheeler
has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft
and before Emmeline Pankhurst
. Roberts, Marie Mulvey et al., editors. “Introduction”. The Reformers: Socialist Feminism, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, p. xi - xv. xii |
Education | Anna Wheeler | In between constant pregnancies and nursing, AW
began to educate herself. She read French and German philosophy and the classics, which she had imported from England. The most influential text she read was Mary Wollstonecraft |
Textual Features | Anna Wheeler | The Appeal begins with an Introductory Letter to Mrs. Wheeler in which William Thompson
expresses his reasons for writing the Appeal: an attempt to arrange the expression of those feelings, sentiments, and reasonings, which... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | That year HMW
was introduced by Dr John Moore
to Burns
, with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers
(in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi
, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. The year... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | |
Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | A respectful review by Mary Wollstonecraft
in the Analytical praised Williams's calm domestic scenes, Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 251 |
Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | The book had a good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical for December 1790. The interesting, unaffected letters which this pleasing writer has now presented to the public Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 322 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | The Nation and Athenæum printed VW
's essay on Mary Wollstonecraft
. Woolf, Virginia, and Michèle Barrett. Women and Writing. Women’s Press. 96 |
Textual Features | Dorothy Wordsworth | What she does not write may sometimes be regretted. She recorded the arrival of Mary Wollstonecraft
's life, etc. (her Posthumous Works, including The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria) on 14 April 1798... |
Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | The Critical Review, commenting on Poems, on Various Subjects together with the fourth edition of Yearsley's earlier collection, summarised her case against Hannah More and showed considerable sympathy with her: Surely a mother had... |
Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | A notice in the Analytical Review (perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
) complained that AY
did not deserve her current fame: she certainly has abilities, an independent mind and a feeling heart; but she was... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Yonge | The second volume is again rich in women's writing. Its first item is Elizabeth Gunning
's Family Stories; or, Evenings at my Grandmother's. CY
mentions with approval another item, A Puzzle for a Curious... |
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